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community. 1. A neighborhood, vicinity, or locality. 2. A society or group of people with similar rights or interests. 3. Joint ownership, possession, or participation. [Blacks Law 8th]

communitization (k<<schwa>>-myoo-n<<schwa>>-t<<schwa>>-zay-sh<<schwa>>n), n. Oil & gas. The ag-gregating of small tracts sufficient for the granting of a well permit under applicable well-spacing rules; POOLING. Cf. UNITIZATION. [Cases: Mines and Minerals  92.78. C.J.S. Mines and Minerals §§ 349, 357–359, 361, 384–386.] — communitize (k<<schwa>>-myoo-n<<schwa>>-tIz), vb. [Blacks Law 8th]

communis stipes (k<<schwa>>-myoo-nis stI-peez). [Latin “common trunk”] Hist. A common ancestor. [Blacks Law 8th]

communis scriptura (k<<schwa>>-myoo-nis skrip-t[y]oor-<<schwa>> or k<<schwa>>m-myoo-n<<schwa>>s skrip-tyuur-<<schwa>>). [Latin “common writing”] Hist. See CHIROGRAPH. [Blacks Law 8th]

  communis patria (k<<schwa>>-myoo-nis pay-tree-<<schwa>>). [Law Latin] Hist. The common country; a place deemed home to all. “Under the old diligence of apprising, directed against heritable rights, the messenger executing the diligence held his court in the head borough of the shire where the lands lay, but afterwards it became the practice to hold these courts…

communis paries (k<<schwa>>-myoo-nis par-ee-eez). [Latin “common wall”] Civil law. See party wall under WALL. Pl. communes parietes.[Blacks Law 8th]

communis opinio doctorum (k<<schwa>>-myoo-nis <<schwa>>-pin-ee-oh dok-tor-<< schwa>>m). [Latin “learned common opinion”] Hist. Scholarly agreement on points of Roman law, collected by the glossators of Justinian’s texts in the later Middle Ages. [Blacks Law 8th]

communis opinio (k<<schwa>>-myoo-nis <<schwa>>-pin-ee-oh). [Latin “common opinion”] Hist. A generally accepted belief about a point of law. • If held unanimously by those learned in the law, this common belief had the force of law in classical Rome. “Communis opinio is evidence of what the law is, — not where it is an opinion merely…

communism. 1. A political doctrine, based on Marxism, advocating the abolition of capitalism by ground-roots revolution; specif., a social and political doctrine advocating the abolition of private ownership in favor of common ownership of the means of production and the goods produced, each person contributing as able and receiving as needed. Cf. CAPITALISM. 2. Totalitarian government. [Blacks…

communis error (k<<schwa>>-myoo-nis e-ror). [Latin] Scots law. A common error; esp., a long-standing error in practice that the court would uphold even though the practice has no legal basis. — Also termed communis error facet jus. [Blacks Law 8th]