The phrase "common counsel" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where advice or guidance is sought from a group or collective opinion.
Example: "After much deliberation, the board reached a decision based on the common counsel of its members."
Alternatives: "shared advice" or "collective guidance."
They were to be summoned "with full and sufficient authority on behalf of themselves and the community... to do whatever shall be ordained by common counsel".
The most common counsel for those staring at a tiny hole across a vast expanse is to imagine that the hole is surrounded by a much larger circle, perhaps 3 to 4 feet in diameter.
In particular, objectors urged, claimants whose injuries had become manifest and claimants without manifest injuries should not have common counsel and should not be aggregated in a single class.
No scutage or aid shall be imposed in our kingdom unless by common counsel of our kingdom, except for ransoming our person, for making our eldest son a knight, and for once marrying our eldest daughter, and for these only a reasonable aid shall be levied.
In England this was written into Magna Carta (1215), which stated: No scutage or aid shall be imposed in our kingdom unless by common counsel of our kingdom, except for ransoming our person, for making our eldest son a knight, and for once marrying our eldest daughter, and for these only a reasonable aid shall be levied.
In touting the New Freedom acts he never shied from admitting that he had compromised — sometimes out of necessity, sometimes because he had learned new things, but mostly because that is how he thought democracy should work: by drawing upon "the best of our common counsel".
– Creative Commons general counsel Mia Garlick.
At the scene of a disaster it is now common for counselling to be provided for the victims, but will everyone develop post traumatic stress disorder PTSD?
As a former investigator, I was also shocked to discover that nowhere in Europe — even in the United Kingdom, where adversarial criminal trial was invented — is it common for defense counsel to independently investigate the government's allegations against the counsel's clients.
Thus although Archbishop Arundel stressed in 1399 that Henry wished to be properly advised and that he intended to be governed by common advice and counsel, some argument and conflict was inevitable.
Supporters of gay conversion therapy argue it uses common psychological or counselling techniques to help people voluntarily change their sexual orientation, but the practice is widely condemned.
