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A judgment recovered in a fictitious suit, brought against the tenant of the freehold, in consequence of a default made by the person who is last vouched to warranty in the suit., A common recovery is a kind of conveyance. Law Dictionary - Alternative Legal Definition In conveyancing. A species of common assurance, or mode of conveying lands by matter of record, formerly in … [Read more...] about COMMON RECOVERY

In the English parliament The lower house, so called because the commons of the realm, that is, the knights, citizens, and burgesses returned to parliament representing the whole body of the commons, sit there. … [Read more...] about COMMONS HOUSE OF PARLIAMENT

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

In Scotch law. Land possessed in common by different proprietors, or by those having acquired rights of servitude, Bell. … [Read more...] about COMMONTY

In Spanish law. A contract by which one person lends gratuitously to another some object not consumable, to be restored to him in kind at a given period; the same contract as commodatum. … [Read more...] about COMMODATO