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单词 common law
释义
common law
noun[U]
uk
/ˌkɒm.ən ˈlɔː/us
/ˌkɑː.mən ˈlɑː/
thelegalsysteminEnglandand most of the US that hasdevelopedover aperiodoftimefromoldcustomsandcourtdecisions,ratherthanlawsmade bypoliticians
（英格兰和美国大部分地区的）习惯法，普通法，判例法，不成文法
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Rules & laws
  • admiralty
  • anti-bribery
  • anti-regulatory
  • anti-sodomy
  • anti-speculative
  • antitrust
  • binding
  • edict
  • leash law
  • non-binding
  • non-competition
  • non-regulation
  • non-solicitation
  • protocol
  • regulation
  • self-regulation
  • sharia
  • the Highway Code
  • the law is an assidiom
  • the Official Secrets Act
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common-law
adjective
uk
/ˈkɒm.ən.lɔː/us
/ˈkɑː.mən.lɑː/
common-law wife/husband
someone who is notofficiallyawifeorhusbandbut isconsideredto be one because she or he has beenlivingwiththeirpartnerfor alongtime
事实婚姻的丈夫（或妻子）
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Marriage: marital status
  • bachelor
  • bachelorette
  • bachelorhood
  • be between jobs/marriages/boyfriends, girlfriends, etc.idiom
  • between
  • honeymooners
  • live in
  • lone
  • married
  • marry
  • miss
  • spinster
  • spinsterhood
  • spoken for
  • trophy wife
  • unattached
  • widowed
  • widower
  • widowhood
  • wifely
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(Definition ofcommon lawfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

common law| American Dictionary

common law
noun[C/U]
us
/ˈkɑm·ən ˈlɔ/
politics & government
alegalsystemthat hasdevelopedover aperiodoftimefromcustomsandcourtdecisions
(Definition ofcommon lawfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

common law| Business English

common law
noun[U]
uk
us
LAW
asystemoflawsbasedoncustomsandcourtdecisionsratherthan on writtenlawsmade by aparliament.Commonlawformsthebasisof thelegalsystemin the UK, US, andvariousothercountries:
There is nostatutorydefinitionof "occupier" so it isnecessarytoturntocommonlaw.
Compare
civil law
statute law
(Definition ofcommon lawfrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofcommon law

common law
Up until the twentieth century, regulations regarding marital fitness tended to follow thecommon-lawrules on the capacity of parties to contract.
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More specific ones include the metaphysical counterparts of theories of constitutional, statutory, andcommon-lawinterpretation.
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All this seems to achieve is an arbitrary restriction on improvingcommon-lawrules.
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Looking first at (3a), it is simply not characteristic ofcommon-lawcourts to approach distinguishing in the same spirit as they approach overruling.
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Why arecommon-lawjudgments so discursive at the appellate level?
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Later courts should be free to make amendments tocommon-lawrules in situations where a too-rigid adherence to rules would lead to injustice.
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But once rights are understood as dignity-based, intent makes all the difference, just as it does in basiccommon-lawtort law or criminal law.
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Excluded as a ' child ' is a 16 year-old living in acommon-lawrelationship with her stepfather, the suspect.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Of course, this is a large part of what judges do incommon-lawcases.
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The assimilation of precedent to statute facilitates a unified account of law incommon-lawsystems: the basic building blocks of legal doctrine are legal rules.
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The point of thecommon-lawdoctrine is to avoid inconsistency while limiting the legal effect of earlier decisions.
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This marked the beginning of the move to the use ofcommon-lawrules of recovery to shape public behavior.
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Subjects ofcommon-lawsystems have a duty to serve on juries if asked.
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It could have been more akin tocommon-lawmarriage resulting from co-habitation and the subsequent birth of a child.
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If precedents do not exist to createcommon-lawrules, what role do they serve?
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