C Dictionary
common
common 1 a : of or relating to a community at large : public [ defense] b : known to the community [a thief] 2 : belonging to or shared by two or more persons or things or by all members of a group [when the insured and the beneficiary perish in a disaster] [ areas of the building] 3 : of or relating to common stock [ shares] n 1 pl cap : house of commons 2 : the legal right of taking a profit in another's land in common with the owner or others [the of estovers] [the of pasture] 3 : a piece of land subject to common use: as a : land jointly owned and used esp. for pasture b : a public open area in a municipality 4 : a condition of shared ownership : a condition in which a right is shared with an interest held by another person [held the estate in ] see also tenancy in common at tenancy compare severalty 5 : common stock at stock ...
Common
Belonging or relating equally or similarly to more than one as you and I have a common interest in the property...
Common
Common, a profit which a man has in the land of another; it derives its name from the community of interest which thence arises between the claimant and the owner of the soil, or between the claimant and other commoners entitled to the same right; all which parties are entitled to bring actions for injuries done to their respective interests, and that both as against strangers and against each other. It is called an incorporeal right, which lies in grant, as if originally commencing in some agreement between lords and tenants, for some valuable consideration which, by lapse of time, being formed into a prescription, continues, although there be no deed or instrument in writing which proves the original contract or agreement. It differs from a rent, principally in freedom of enjoyment on the one hand, and in freedom from obligation on the other; which the law expresses by the quaint antithesis that it lies not in render but in prender. It is also incidentally distinguished by its fruits...
Common assurances
Common assurances, the legal evidences of the tran-slation of property, whereby every person's estate is assured to him. These common assurances are of four kinds:-(1) By matter in pais, or deed, which is an assurance transacted between two or more private persons, in pais, iin the country; that is (according to the old Common Law) upon the very spot to be transferred. (2) By matter of record, or an assurance transacted only in the sovereign's public courts of record, or under the authority of a public board or commission empowered by Act of Parliament to record its proceedings. (3) By special custom obtaining in some particular places and relating only to some particular species of property: which three are such as take effect during the life of the party conveying or assuring. (4) The fourth takes no effect till after his death, and that is by devise, contained in his last will and testament, 2 Bl. Com. 294....
Common bench
Common bench [fr. banc., Sax., bench], a name of the Court of Common Pleas. Thus the 'Common Bench Reports' are the reports of the cases decided in the Court of Common Pleas. See COMMON PLEAS....
common carrier
common carrier : a business or agency that is available to the public for transportation of persons, goods, or messages compare contract carrier ...
Common carrier
Common carrier, the question in any particular case whether the carrier was a common carrier or a private carrier has therefore to be decided on the ascertainment of what he publicly professes. This profession, it need hardly be mentioned, may be by public notice or by actual indiscriminate carrying of goods. It is also clear that the profession to carry goods indiscriminately may be limited to particular goods or to particular routes or even as to two or more specified points, River Steam Navigation Co. Ltd. v. Shyam Sunder Tea Co. Ltd., AIR 1962 SC 1276 (1279): (1962) 2 SCR 802. [Carriers Act, 1865, ss. 2 and 3]Is not by his description of his own business, al-though if may be inferred from the character of that business that he is a common carrier, Upston v. Slark, (1827) 2 C&P 598.Whether or not a person is a common carrier is in every case a question of fact, Belfast Ropework Co. Ltd. v. Bushell, (1918) 1 KB 210 (215) per Bailhache, J.'Common carrier' denotes a person, other than ...
Common compound
Common compound, the aforesaid meaning of the term 'common' read in the light of term 'compound' as an adjective makes it very clear that if the compound land is shared in common by occupants of number of building situated there in it would be a common compound for them, Municipal Board, Shaharanpur v. Imperial Tobacco of India Ltd., AIR 1999 SC 264.Common compound, any land used in common by the occupants of buildings situated in such common land can be said to form a 'common compound' covering all such buildings and once that conclusion is reached, Municipal Board Saharanpur v. Imperial Tobacco of India Ltd., (1999) 1 SCC 566....
Common Council
Common Council, the councillors of the City of London. See COUNCIL....
Common Counts
Common Counts. The indebitatus (see that title) counts in a declaration for goods sold and delivered, or bargained and sold, for work done, for money lent, for money paid, for money received to the use of the plaintiff, for interest or for money due on an account stated, were so called.-Superseded by the Judicature Acts. See STATE-MENT OF CLAIM....