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Communis error facit jus.-4 Inst. 240. (Common error makes law.) 'A maxim to be applied with very great caution.' See Broom's Legal Max., where common recoveries (see RECOVERY) are given as an example of its application, as also is the practice of the courts of adhering to erroneous, because long-established, views of the law. See PRECEDENTS.