C Dictionary
common stock
common stock see stock ...
Common stock or common hotchpot
Common stock or common hotchpot, the doctrine of throwing into common stock inevitably postulates that the owner of a separate property is a coparcener who has an interest in the coparcenary property and desires to blend his separate property with the coparcenary property. The existence of a coparcenary is absolutely necessary before a coparcener can throw into the common stock his self-acquired properties. The separate property of a member of a joint Hindu family may be impressed with the character of joint family property if it is voluntarily thrown by him into the common stock with the intention of abandoning his separate claim therein. The separate property of a Hindu ceases to be a separate property and acquires the characteristic of a joint family or ancestral property not by any physical mixing with his joint family or his ancestral property but by his own volition and intention by his waiving and surrendering his separate rights in it as separate property. The act by which the ...
Common travel area
Common travel area, the United Kingdom, the channel Islands, the Isle of man and the Irish Republic Collectively form the 'Common travel area', Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 4(2), para 75, p. 95....
common trust fund
common trust fund see fund ...
Common vouchee
Common vouchee. Obsolete. See RECOVERY....
common-law
common-law 1 : of, relating to, or based on the common law [common-law immunity] 2 : relating to or based on a common-law marriage [her common-law husband] ...
common-law
common-law 1 : of, relating to, or based on the common law [common-law immunity] 2 : relating to or based on a common-law marriage [her common-law husband] ...
common-law copyright
common-law copyright : a copyright in common law protecting unpublished works NOTE: Works created after January 1, 1978, are protected by statutory rather than common-law copyright while unpublished. ...
common-law lien
common-law lien see lien ...
common-law marriage
common-law marriage : a marriage that is without a ceremony and is based on the parties' agreement to consider themselves married and usually also on their cohabitation for a period and their public recognition of the marriage compare concubinage NOTE: Most jurisdictions no longer allow this type of marriage to be formed, although they may recognize such marriages formed prior to a certain date or formed in a jurisdiction that does permit common-law marriages. ...