the legal system in England and most of the US that has developed over a period of time from old customs and court decisions, rather than laws made by politicians
Rules & laws
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common-law
adjective
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/ˈkɑː.mən.lɑː/common-law wife/husband
someone who is not officially a wife or husband but is considered to be one because she or he has been living with their partner for a long time
Marriage: marital status
- bachelor
- bachelorette
- bachelorhood
- be between jobs/marriages/boyfriends, girlfriends, etc. idiom
- between
- honeymooners
- live in
- lone
- married
- marry
- miss
- spinster
- spinsterhood
- spoken for
- trophy wife
- unattached
- widowed
- widower
- widowhood
- wifely
common law | Amerikanisches Wörterbuch
common law
noun [ C/U ]
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/ˈkɑm·ən ˈlɔ/politics & government
a legal system that has developed over a period of time from customs and court decisions
(Definition von common law aus dem Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)common law | Business Englisch
common law
noun [ U ]
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a system of laws based on customs and court decisions rather than on written laws made by a parliament. Common law forms the basis of the legal system in the UK, US, and various other countries:
There is no statutory definition of "occupier" so it is necessary to turn to common law.
Vergleichen
civil law
statute law
(Definition von common law aus dem Cambridge Wörterbuch Business-Englisch © Cambridge University Press)Beispiele von common law
common law
Up until the twentieth century, regulations regarding marital fitness tended to follow the common-law rules on the capacity of parties to contract.
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More specific ones include the metaphysical counterparts of theories of constitutional, statutory, and common-law interpretation.
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All this seems to achieve is an arbitrary restriction on improving common-law rules.
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Looking first at (3a), it is simply not characteristic of common-law courts to approach distinguishing in the same spirit as they approach overruling.
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Why are common-law judgments so discursive at the appellate level?
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Later courts should be free to make amendments to common-law rules in situations where a too-rigid adherence to rules would lead to injustice.
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But once rights are understood as dignity-based, intent makes all the difference, just as it does in basic common-law tort law or criminal law.
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Excluded as a ' child ' is a 16 year-old living in a common-law relationship with her stepfather, the suspect.
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Of course, this is a large part of what judges do in common-law cases.
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The assimilation of precedent to statute facilitates a unified account of law in common-law systems: the basic building blocks of legal doctrine are legal rules.
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The point of the common-law doctrine is to avoid inconsistency while limiting the legal effect of earlier decisions.
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This marked the beginning of the move to the use of common-law rules of recovery to shape public behavior.
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Subjects of common-law systems have a duty to serve on juries if asked.
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It could have been more akin to common-law marriage resulting from co-habitation and the subsequent birth of a child.
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If precedents do not exist to create common-law rules, what role do they serve?
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