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Paul's Churchyard in London where the doctors of civil law used
to common together, and where were the ecclesiastical and
admiralty courts and offices having jurisdiction of marriage
licenses, divorces, registration of wills, etc. --
To be on short commons, to have a small
allowance of food. [Colloq.]

Com"mon sense" (?). See Common sense,
under Sense.

Com"mon*ty (?), n. (Scots
Law) A common; a piece of land in which two or more
persons have a common right. Bell.

Com"mon*weal" (?), n.
[Common + weal.] Commonwealth.

Such a prince,

So kind a father of the commonweal.

Shak.

Com"mon*wealth` (?; 277), n.
[Common + wealth well-being.] 1.
A state; a body politic consisting of a certain number of
men, united, by compact or tacit agreement, under one form of
government and system of laws.

The trappings of a monarchy would set up an
ordinary commonwealth.

Milton.

&fist; This term is applied to governments which are
considered as free or popular, but rarely, or improperly, to an
absolute government.

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