unwritten law 的定义
- a law that rests for its authority on custom, judicial decision, etc., as distinguished from law originating in written command, statute, or decree.
- the unwritten law, the supposed principle of the right of the individual to avenge wrongs against personal or family honor, especially in cases involving relations between the sexes: sometimes urged in justification of persons guilty of criminal acts of vengeance.
unwritten law 近义词
law based on customs or traditions
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rule based on custom
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更多unwritten law例句
- 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.