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Definition of Common seal
1. Noun. Small spotted seal of coastal waters of the northern hemisphere.
Generic synonyms: Earless Seal, Hair Seal, True Seal
Group relationships: Genus Phoca, Phoca
Definition of Common seal
1. Noun. A seal living in the northern Atlantic and Pacific oceans. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Common Seal
Literary usage of Common seal
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Digest of the Laws of England by John Comyns, Anthony Hammond (1822)
"Or make an alienation, under the common seal, in fee, for life/Or"for years. ...
This is by fixing the common seal; which therefore it is incident to every ..."
2. United States Supreme Court Reportsby Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1882)
"The verdict finds "that he was intrusted and employed by the governor and company
of the Bank of England, but not under their common seal. ..."
3. Treatise on the Law of Private Corporations Aggregate by Joseph Kinnicut Angell, Samuel Ames (1852)
"by the objecting party.1 The presumption of authority to affix the common seal,
from the fact that it is affixed to the instrument, will not be overcome in ..."
4. The Gentleman's Magazine (1840)
"common seal of ... I shall be much obliged to you os any a your readers if you
would inform se whether any towns, not corporate, hadi common seal. ..."
5. English Grammar Schools in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth by Ancel Ray Monroe Stowe (1908)
""They shall never seal anything with their common seal, except Four of the
Governors agree to it at the least,—And if it be for putting away any lands, ..."
6. The Colonial Records of the State of Georgia by Georgia General Assembly (1904)
"To which the common seal was affixed the Ninth day of January 1734. At the Court
at St. James's the 3d day of April 1735. Present The Kings most Excellent ..."
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