Crim. law, communes rixatrix. A woman, who, in consequence of her boisterous, disorderly and quarrelsome tongue, is a public nuisance to the neighborhood. 2. Such a woman may be indicted, and on conviction, punished. At common law, the punishment was by being placed in a certain engine of correction called the trebucket or cocking stool. 3. This punisbment has been abolished in … [Read more...] about COMMON SCOLD
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COMMONTY
In Scotch law. Land possessed in common by different proprietors, or by those having acquired rights of servitude, Bell. … [Read more...] about COMMONTY
COMMON SEAL
A seal used by a corporation. See Corporation. … [Read more...] about COMMON SEAL
COMMONWEALTH
The public or common weal or welfare. This cannot be regarded as a technical term of public law, though often used in political science. It generally designates, when so employed, a republican frame of government one in which the welfare and rights of the entire mass of people are the main consideration, rather than the privileges of a class or the will of a monarch; or it may … [Read more...] about COMMONWEALTH
COMMODATUM
A contract, by which one of the parties binds himself to return to the other certain personal chattels which the latter delivers to him, to be used by him, without reward; loan for use. Vide Loan for use. Law Dictionary - Alternative Legal Definition In the civil law. He who lends to another a thing for a definite time, to be enjoyed and used under certain conditions, without … [Read more...] about COMMODATUM