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Common law (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (225 words) |
 | The Common law movement is an appendage of the Militia movement, an anti-government movement in the United States, in which private citizens establish "common law courts" and issue rulings based on their personal readings of the United States Constitution and the Bible. |
| "Common law" is also the direct translation of the Latin phrase ius commune, the Roman law common to most Europe during the Middle Ages and comprising mostly Justinian's Corpus Juris Civilis. |
| Common Law was also the title of a 1996 ABC sitcom. |
| Common law - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (2300 words) |
| Common law originally developed under an adversarial system in England from judicial decisions that were based in tradition, custom, and precedent. |
| The common law, as applied in civil cases (as distinct from criminal cases), was devised as a means of compensating someone for wrongful acts known as torts, including both intentional torts and torts caused by negligence, and as developing the body of law recognizing and regulating contracts. |
| Statutes which reflect English common law are understood always to be interpreted in light of the common law tradition, and so may leave a number of things unsaid because they are already understood from the point of view of pre-existing case law and custom. |
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