Voorbeelden van 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.

• More specific ones include the metaphysical counterparts of theories of constitutional, statutory, and common-law interpretation.

• All this seems to achieve is an arbitrary restriction on improving common-law rules.

• Looking first at (3a), it is simply not characteristic of common-law courts to approach distinguishing in the same spirit as they approach overruling.

• Why are common-law judgments so discursive at the appellate level?

• 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.

• 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.

• Excluded as a ' child ' is a 16 year-old living in a common-law relationship with her stepfather, the suspect.

• Of course, this is a large part of what judges do in common-law cases.

• 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.

• The point of the common-law doctrine is to avoid inconsistency while limiting the legal effect of earlier decisions.

• This marked the beginning of the move to the use of common-law rules of recovery to shape public behavior.

• Subjects of common-law systems have a duty to serve on juries if asked.

• It could have been more akin to common-law marriage resulting from co-habitation and the subsequent birth of a child.

• If precedents do not exist to create common-law rules, what role do they serve?