COMMON, Communia, (i. e. quod ad omnes pertinet), in
law, signifies that soil, the use whereof is common to a
particular town or lordship; or it is a profit that a man
hath in the land of another person, usually in common
with others; or a right which a person hath to put his
cattle to pasture into ground that is not his own.
And there is not only common of pasture, but also
common of piscary, common of estovers, common of
turbary, &c. And in all cases of common, the law
doth much respect the custom of the place; for there
the rule is, consuetudo loci est observanda. See COM-
MONTY.