Omnia sunt communia is a Latin phrase and slogan that literally means "all are common"[1] but has been variously translated as "all things are to be held in common"[2] 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",[3] 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.