Generalization

The word originally referred to mean primarily a property jointly owned several people (example: " all these people is the mother tongue German public "). It is related to the Latin communis / commune and the English mean ( or indirect common).

Outside of these and other fixed expressions, it is now often used colloquially as a synonym for evil ' (in the sense of sneaky ).

In animal and plant taxa in common means that this type of Benenner the best known was ( list ) and has no special features.

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Similarly meaning it is still preserved in the adjective in general ( as opposed to special), which means as much as comprising ',' general 'or' apply to all or the vast majority ', as for the proverbial common man. With generality, the entire population of an area is designated. What part of the general public, belongs to all along, but no one alone is often used by each individual (see commons ).

The process of an observed number of similar individual phenomena to infer general validity is referred to as generalization ( generalization).

Individual meanings

• As a community or congregation a general meeting of all the mercenaries who were part of a crowd, a prototype of the parliamentary system, which is found in the Constitution of the Army meetings already in Greek and Roman antiquity was elected ( and several Roman emperors and anti-emperor with the mercenaries of the early modern period has ).
• In the German army was referred to 1918 as a private, who belonged to the people of war as a duty -free degree simple soldier. The name was common from the 18th to the 20th century.
• Already pejoratively called it early the common people ( " the common people " ) and meant soon " vulgar. "
• Legal meanings Joint owner of a medieval property, such as a castle were called Common.
• The common danger as a legal concept (eg in § 323c StGB) requires that significant legal interests (eg life or property ) of a large number of people are actually at risk.
• The common law is - in contrast to the particular law, which applies only to a part of the territory - a territory as a whole. So was the Roman law since the reception from the 14th century, so from the late Middle Ages to the end of the Old Kingdom in 1806 as " Common Law " ( " ius commune " ) throughout the territory of the empire. Although went before Roman imperial law or local territorial law as particular law, but only if they were provable. In practice, this was the Common law in many states the applicable law because it had not been proven. No later than 1900, the Common Law in the German Empire was replaced by the entry into force of the Civil Code. In other former territories of the Old Kingdom, it was long still continues in its Common Dutch law, which continues to be valid also in the former colonial territories of the Netherlands ( for example in the area inhabited by the Boers of South Africa and Zimbabwe) today for some territories and areas of law.

• A village in the Bavarian village of Bindlach also named public.