0 a system of unwritten laws based on old customs and on judges’ earlier decisions -- thông luật
It is well established in common law that a person who injures another may be sued for compensation.
1 referring to a relationship between two people who are not officially married, but have the same rights as husband and wife -- chồng vợ được công nhận do hôn nhân thực tế
a common-law marriage
a common-law wife/husband.
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.
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