Omnia sunt communia

Omnia sunt communia is a Latin phrase and slogan that literally means "all are common" but has been variously translated as "all things are to be held in common" or simply "all things in common". Originating in the Latin translation of the Acts of the Apostles, altered forms of the slogan were applied as a legal maxim in canon law and later in secular law. Originally, it was the central precept of the community of "the Way", and was later a slogan of the labouring class in the German Peasants' War of 1524-1525, referred to as Christian communism, the concept of koinonia, which means common or shared life.