common-law 的定义
- the system of law originating in England, as distinct from the civil or Roman law and the canon or ecclesiastical law.
- the unwritten law, especially of England, based on custom or court decision, as distinct from statute law.
- the law administered through the system of courts established for the purpose, as distinct from equity or admiralty.
common-law 近义词
evolved law
更多common-law例句
- Instead, he has a lawyer’s eye for the ways in which legislation and common law have helped shape attitudes about fashion, along with a fan’s sustained curiosity about fashion’s visual language.
- The court rejected the city’s efforts to sue under state nuisance law for damages caused by the companies’ “admittedly legal” production and sale of fossil fuels, and said the city’s federal common law claims were displaced by the Clean Air Act.
- The US and UK often mirror each other because they have a similar common law structure, says Mania.
- Unless there is a court decision that changes our law, we are OK.
- Submission is set in a France seven years from now that is dominated by a Muslim president intent on imposing Islamic law.
- A few days later, Bush replied, “We will uphold the law in Florida.”
- To those who agreed with him, Bush pledged that the law against same-sex marriage would remain intact.
- In Israel, however, a new law took effect January 1st that banned the use of underweight models.
- We should have to admit that the new law does little or nothing to relieve such a situation.
- He that seeketh the law, shall be filled with it: and he that dealeth deceitfully, shall meet with a stumblingblock therein.
- To Harrison and his wife there was no distinction between the executive and judicial branches of the law.
- Now this setting up of an orderly law-abiding self seems to me to imply that there are impulses which make for order.
- These schools became affiliated Universities, but never equalled the Law University in importance.