common law是什么意思

双语用例

• 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.