That the king wishes to have a colloquium with the prelates, earls, barons, and with the rest of the communitas of the kingdom, respecting the perambulations, and on other arduous affairs concerning the king and kingdom.
We could guess as much on general grounds, but the self-dependent position assumed by the 'communitas villanorum' of Brightwaltham is the more interesting, that it finds expression in a formal and recorded agreement.
It will scarcely be contended that no one was to contribute under this writ but tenants in chief; and yet the word communitas can hardly be applied to different persons, when it occurs in the same instrument and upon the same matter.
But the word communitas, as in boroughs, denotes only the superior part: it is not unusual to find mention in records of communitas populi or omnes de regno, where none are intended but the barons, or at most the tenants in chief.
Halm's ed of the philosophical works, proposed to read nulla re differens communitas visi?
John the carpenter and Alice his wife grant a messuage next the gates of Nedham to “Ballivi, Cives, et Communitas Norwici” “ad asiamentum muri civitatis erigendi.
An enrolled deed of 1290, in which license to build a stall in the market is granted by the “Communitas Norwici et cives ejusdam civitatis,” is quoted by Mr. Hudson.
The use of the word communitas in 1463 is here explained as showing how the term had “already lost its original meaning and was used to designate the humblest and least influential class of the burgesses.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "communitas" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
