Doctors' Commons

a place near St. Paul's Churchyard in London where the doctors of civil law used to common together, and where were the ecclesiastical and admiralty courts and offices having jurisdiction of marriage licenses, divorces, registration of wills, etc.
See under Commons.

See also: Commons, doctor

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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