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<p><b>3.</b> <fld>(Law)</fld> <def>The right of taking a profit in the land of another, in common either with the owner or with other persons; -- so called from the community of interest which arises between the claimant of the right and the owner of the soil, or between the claimants and other commoners entitled to the same right.</def>

<cs><col>Common appendant</col>, <cd>a right belonging to the owners or occupiers of arable land to put commonable beasts upon the waste land in the manor where they dwell.</cd> -- <col>Common appurtenant</col>, <cd>a similar right applying to lands in other manors, or extending to other beasts, besides those which are generally commonable, as hogs.</cd> -- <mcol><col>Common because of vicinage</col> &or; <col>neighborhood</col></mcol>, <cd>the right of the inhabitants of each of two townships, lying contiguous to each other, which have usually intercommoned with one another, to let their beasts stray into the other's fields.</cd> -- <mcol><col>Common in gross</col> &or; <col>at large</col></mcol>, <cd>a common annexed to a man's person, being granted to him and his heirs by deed; or it may be claimed by prescriptive right, as by a parson of a church or other corporation sole.</cd> <i>Blackstone.</i> -- <col>Common of estovers</col>, <cd>the right of taking wood from another's estate.</cd> -- <col>Common of pasture</col>, <cd>the right of feeding beasts on the land of another.</cd> <i>Burill.</i> -- <col>Common of piscary</col>, <cd>the right of fishing in waters belonging to another.</cd> -- <col>Common of turbary</col>, <cd>the right of digging turf upon the ground of another.</cd></cs>

<h1>Common</h1> <Xpage=286>

<hw>Com"mon</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To converse together; to discourse; to confer.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>Embassadors were sent upon both parts, and divers means of entreaty were <b>commoned</b> of. <i>Grafton.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To participate.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Sir T. More.</i>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To have a joint right with others in common ground.</def>

<i>Johnson.</i>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>To board together; to eat at a table in common.</def>

<h1>Commonable</h1> <Xpage=286>

<hw>Com"mon*a*ble</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Held in common.</def> "Forests . . . and other <i>commonable</i> places."

<i>Bacon.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Allowed to pasture on public commons.</def>

<blockquote><b>Commonable</b> beasts are either beasts of the plow, or such as manure the ground. <i>Blackstone.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Commonage</h1> <Xpage=286>

<hw>Com"mon*age</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Cf. OF. <ets>communage</ets>.]</ety> <def>The right of pasturing on a common; the right of using anything in common with others.</def>

<blockquote>The claim of <b>comonage</b> . . . in most of the forests. <i>Burke.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Commonalty</h1> <Xpage=286>

<hw>Com"mon*al*ty</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>; <plu>pl. <plw>Commonalties</plw> <tt>(#)</tt>.</plu> <ety>[Of. <ets>communalt\'82</ets>; F. <ets>communaut\'82</ets>, fr. <ets>communal</ets>. See <er>Communal</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The common people; those classes and conditions of people who are below the rank of nobility; the commons.</def>

<blockquote>The <b>commonalty</b>, like the nobility, are divided into several degrees. <i>Blackstone.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>The ancient fare of our kings differed from that of the <b>commonalty</b> in plenteousness only. <i>Landon.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>The majority or bulk of mankind.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Hooker.</i>

<h1>Commoner</h1> <Xpage=286>

<hw>Com"mon*er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>One of the common people; one having no rank of nobility.</def>

<blockquote>All below them [the peers] even their children, were <b>commoners</b>, and in the eye law equal to each other. <i>Hallam.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A member of the House of Commons.</def>