Common Law
In law, common law (also known as judicial precedent or judge-made law, or case law) is the body of law created by judges and similar quasi-judicial tribunals by virtue of being stated in written opinions. The defining characteristic of “common law” is that it arises as precedent. In cases where the parties disagree on what the law is, a common law court looks to past precedential decisions of relevant courts, and synthesizes the principles of those past cases as applicable to the current facts. If a similar dispute has been resolved in the past, the court is usually bound to …
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LC: Library of Congress · 2023 English
"LL File No. 2023-022392." "August 2023." Includes bibliographical references. Description based on online resource, PDF version; title from cover (LOC, viewed Sept. 15, 2023).
corporation and it was owned by you, your spouse or common-law partner, or a partnership of which you were …
LC: Library of Congress · 2023 English
"LL File No. 2023-022255." "June 2023." "Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Egypt, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, India, Indonesia, Iran, Ireland, Israel, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, Nigeria, Norway, Philippines, …
Canada with their spouse or common-law partner if the spouse or common law-partner is a Canadian citizen …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 3 August 2021 English
This report was published on August 3, 2021, by the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI), a non-governmental organisation based in New Delhi. It outlines the “harassment, attacks and intimidation” faced …
Although the Commonwealth, an association of 54 nations, provided member countries the basis of shared common laws, there …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 28 September 2020 English
This report was published by Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI), a non-governmental organisation based in New Delhi, in collaboration with the Association for Advocacy and Legal Initiatives (AALI), a Lucknow-based …
Although the Commonwealth, an association of 53 nations, provided member countries the basis of shared common laws, there …
LC: Library of Congress · 2020 English
"September 2020." "Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia, England and Wales, European Union, France, Germany, India, Israel, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Russian Federation, South Korea, Turkey." "LL File no. 2020-019331." …
between jurisdictions that belong to the English common law system and those that belong to (or are influenced … forward documents to foreign authorities. In the common law jurisdictions surveyed, international service … entity. On the other hand, the majority of English common law jurisdictions surveyed, while generally not …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 1 January 2018 English
This report was published in 2018 by Food Sovereignty Alliance, India; Catholic Health Association of India, Secunderabad; and Nirmala Niketan College of Home Science, Mumbai.It presents the result of a …
rights of access to water with landowners through common law principles. For groundwater, landowners had unlimited … large landowners. In spite of the evolution of common law principles of the Indian Easements Act 1882 …
LC: Library of Congress · 1 January 2017 English
"Publication code 1723E". Includes bibliographical references (pages 41-44). Title from PDF file as viewed on 1/31/2017.
principle of stare decisis or precedent followed by common law tradition, the rule on the previous case will … judicial functions differs from the judges in the common law system. Civil law is generally seen as a tradition … ordinary judges -- unlike their counterparts in the common law -- are passive and do not “exercise any vision … limited to the case at hand, but are important in common law jurisdiction for developing judicial precedents …
LC: Library of Congress · 2017 English
"January 2017"--title page. Includes bibliographical references. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
included in the Constitution to replicate the common-law offense of blasphemy, which at the time covered … Ireland inherited its common law from the Republic of Ireland,134 and the common law offenses of blasphemy … never been any reported prosecutions for the common-law offense of blasphemy in Northern Ireland and … force as a common-law offense.148 The Stair Memorial Encyclopaedia includes the common-law offense … that the offense is a “lingering feature of common law.”153 A review on the laws of blasphemy stated …
LC: Library of Congress · 1 January 2016 English
"Publication code: 1601E". Includes bibliographical references (pages 95-99). Title from PDF file as viewed on 5/19/2016.
tribal code; “Pashtun culture is dictated by a common law, a set of values, code and a manner of living …
LC: Library of Congress · 2016 English
"May 2016." "Comparative Summary, Argentina, Brazil, China, Egypt, England and Wales, France, Germany, Greece, India, Israel, Italy, Japan, Lebanon, Mexico, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Russian Federation, South Africa, Sweden, Turkey." "LL …
constitutions derived from certain fundamental statutes, common-law decisions, and institutional conventions. In … constitution made up of important statutes, common law precedents, and unwritten conventions.2 The …
