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COMMON INFORMER

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One who, without being specially required by law, or by virtue of his office, gives information of crimes, offences or misdemeanors, which have been committed, in order to prosecute the offenders; a prosecutor. … [Read more...] about COMMON INFORMER

COMMON

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(noun) - An incorporeal hereditament which consists in a profit which one man has in connection with one or more others in the land of another.(adjective) - As an adjective, this word denotes usual, ordinary, accustomed; shared amongst several; owned by several Jointly. State v. O'Conner, 49 Me. 596; Koen r. State, 35 Neb. 676, 53 N. W. 595, 17 L. R. A. 821; Aymette v. State, 2 … [Read more...] about COMMON

COMMON INTENT

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construction. The natural sense given to words. 2. It is a rule that when words are used which will bear a natural sense and an artificial one, or one to be made out by argument and inference, the natural sense shall prevail; it. is simply a rule of construction and not of addition common intent cannot add to a sentence words which have been omitted. 2 H. Black. 530. In … [Read more...] about COMMON INTENT

COMMON APPENDANT

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Eng. law. A right attached to arable land, and is an incident of tenure, and supposed to have originated by grant of the lord or owner of a manor or waste, in consideration of certain rents or services, or other value, to a freeholder or copyholder of plough land, and at the same time either expressly or by implication, and as of common right and necessity common appendant over … [Read more...] about COMMON APPENDANT

COMMON INTEREST DEVELOPMENT

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A housing complex where owners share in the ownership of common areas. For example, a row of townhouses in a gated community that share a parking lot and swimming pool. … [Read more...] about COMMON INTEREST DEVELOPMENT

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