What is COMMUNITY? Definition of COMMUNITY in Black's Law Dictionary - Legal dictionary - Glossary of legal terms.
Neighborhood; vicinity, synonymous with locality. Conley v. Valley Motor Transit Co., C.C.A.Ohio, 139 F.2d 692, 693. People who reside in a locality in more or less proximity. State ex inf. Thompson ex rel. Kenneppe v. Scott, 304 Mo. 664, 264 S.W. 369, 370. A society or body of people living in the same place, under the same laws and regulations, who have common rights, privileges, or interests. In re Huss, 126 N.Y. 537, 27 N.E. 784, 12 L.R.A. 620; Sacred Heart Academy of Galveston v. Karsch, 122 S.W.2d 416, 417, 173 Tenn. 618.
It connotes a congeries of common interests arising from associations—social, business, religious, governmental, scholastic, recreational. Lukens Steel Co. v. Perkins, 107 F.2d 627, 631, 70 App.D.C. 354.
The term "community," as used in a statute proNlding that communities may be incorporated for the purpose of supplying inhabitants with water, should be construed to include all the inhabitants of a district having a community of interest in obtaining for themselves in common a water supply for domestic use. Hamilton v. Rudeen, 112 Or. 268, 224 P. 92, 93.
In connection with the rule requiring, for purposes of i mpeachment, a knowledge of the character of the witness in the community or neighborhood in which he resides, the term "community" means, generally, where the person is well known and has established a reputation. Craven v. State, 22 Ala.App. 39, 111 So. 767, 769.
Civil Law
A corporation or body politic. Dig. 3, 4.
French Law
A species of partnership which a man and a woman contract when they are lawfully married to each other. See, also, Community Property, infra.
Conventional community is that which is formed by express agreement in the contract of marriage.
By this contract the legal community which would otherwise subsist may be modified as to the proportions which each shall take, and as to the things which shall compose it.
Legal community is that which takes place by virtue of the contract of marriage itself.
The French system of community property was known as the dotal system, and the Spanish as the ganancial system. The conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards and their acquisition of the Florida territory resulted in the introduction on American soil of the Spanish system, which now prevails, usually in a somewhat modified form, in Texas, California, Nevada, Arizona, Washington, Idaho, New Mexico, Porto Rico, and the Philippines. Ballinger, Com.Property, § 6; Chavez v. McKnight, 1 N.M. 147. The Louisiana Code has, with slight modifications, adopted the dotal system of the Code Nepoleon as regards the separate rights of husband and wife, but as to their common property, it retained the essential features of the Spanish ganancial system.
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