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Dictionary of Law Terms: Committee

Committee. Persons to whom the consideration of any matter is referred; as a Committee of the House of Commons or Congress.

Common (Rights of). These are of four sorts: viz., pasture, piscary, estovers and turbary. Common of pasture is the right of feeding one's cattle on the land of another; piscary, that of fishing in waters belonging to another; estovers, the right of taking wood from another's estate for household use and implements in husbandry; and turbary, the right of digging turf upon another's ground.

Complainant. One who complains of the act of another in a court of justice, more commonly called plaintiff.