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common stock.See STOCK. [Blacks Law 8th]

common-source doctrine.The principle that a defendant in a trespass-to-try-title action who claims under a source common to both the defendant and the plaintiff may not demonstrate title in a third source that is paramount to the common source because doing so amounts to an attack on the source under which the defendant claims title. [Cases:…

common-situs picketing.See PICKETING. [Blacks Law 8th]

common serjeant.A judicial officer, appointed by the city of London, who helps the recorder in criminal trials. [Blacks Law 8th]

  common scold.See SCOLD. [Blacks Law 8th]

common school.See public school under SCHOOL. [Blacks Law 8th]

common recovery.Hist. An elaborate proceeding, full of legal fictions, by which a tenant in tail disentailed a fee-tail estate. • The action facilitated land transfer by allowing a potential transferee who was barred by law from receiving land to “recover” the land by suing the actual owner. Common recoveries, which were abolished early in the…

common scheme.See COMMON DESIGN. [Blacks Law 8th]

common rule ex parte.Hist. A court-docket entry reflecting that the case would be decided by a majority vote and would proceed even if a notified party did not appear. See Billington v.prague, 22 Me. 34 (1842). [Blacks Law 8th]

common-return days.See dies communes in banco under DIES. [Blacks Law 8th]