Pertaining to a state, nation, or whole community; proceeding from, relating to, or ahecting the whole body of peo-ple or an entire community, open to all; notorious. Common to all or many; gen-eral; open to common use. Morgan v. Cree, 46 VL 786> 14 Am. Rep. 640; Crane v. wa-ters (C. C.) 10 Fed. 621; Austin v. Soule, 36 Vt. 650; Appeal of Eliot, 74 Conn. 586, 51 Atl. 558; o’Hara v. Miller, 1 Kulp (Pa.) 295
Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)
