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(noun) - A self-governing town or village. The name given to the committee of the people in the French revolution of 1793; and again, in the revolutionary uprising of 1871, it signified the attempt to establish absolute self-government in Paris, or the mass of those concerned in the attempt In old French law, it signified any municipal corporation. And in old English law, the … [Read more...] about COMMUNE

A common stock of descent; a common ancestor. … [Read more...] about COMMUNIS STIPES

In English law. An obsolete writ which anciently lay for the lord, whose tenant, holding by knight's service, died, and left his eldest son under age, against a stranger that entered the land, and obtained the ward of the body. Reg Orig. 161. . … [Read more...] about COMMUNI CUSTODIA

A name given to proposed systems of life or social organization based npon the fundamental principle of the non-existence of private property and of a community of goods in a society. An equality of distribution of the physical means of life and enjoyment as a transition to a still higher standard of justice that all should work according to their capacity and receive according … [Read more...] about COMMUNISM

In the civil law. An action which lies for those who have property in common, to procure a division. It lies where parties hold land in common but not in partnership. Calvin. … [Read more...] about COMMUNI DIVIDUNDO