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 much respects the custom of the place; for there the rule is, consuetudo loci est observanda. See COMMONTY.