COMMON, Communia (quod ad omnes pertinet), in law, signifies that soil, the use of which is common to a particular town or lordship; or it is a profit that a man has in the land of another person, usually in common with others; or a right which a person has 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. In all cases of common, the law respects the custom of the place; for the rule is, consuetudo loci est observanda.