Common Law Synonyms

kŏmən-lô
The law of a country or state based on custom, usage, and the decisions and opinions of law courts: it is now largely codified by legislative definition
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. case law
  2. precedent
  3. non-statutory law
  4. mishnah
  5. sunna
  6. talmud

Words Related to Common Law

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. statute-law
  2. civil law
  3. criminal law
  4. cohabitees
  5. cohabitee
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Common Law Sentence Examples

  • One cause of this separation was the rigid adherence to precedent on the part of the common law courts.

  • The acts of councils of this age are full of the trials of bishops not only for heresy but for immorality and common law crimes.

  • The common law of England treats blasphemy as an indictable offence.

  • The offense of ' outraging public decency ' still exists under the ' common law ' .

  • The common law as it existed before his time was wholly inadequate to cope with the new cases and customs which arose with the increasing development of commerce.

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