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The United States inherited its common law from Great Britain.common law = a system of law based on judicial precedents rather than statutory laws; (also called "case law")
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The common law protected them.† (source)
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Alabama and common law pleading, for instance, was a subject so ethereal in nature that Henry passed it only by memorizing the book.† (source)
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Rowan Academy: Common Law and Customs.† (source)
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—'You have determined, then, to abandon her to the common law?' said Carlini.† (source)
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The common law and statute law of England give it various meanings.† (source)
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From one of the little white tables between the cots Theresa picked up an opened book incautiously left there the night before, read below her gray mustache with the still inward smile of her greatboned face, its title—The Common Law, by Robert W. Chambers—and gripping a pencil in her broad earthstained hand, scrawled briefly in jagged male letters: "Rubbish, Elizabeth—but see for yourself."† (source)
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She was the common-law wife of Dr. Buzzard, the last great voodoo practitioner in Beaufort County.† (source)
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But we must never cease to proclaim in fearless tones the great principles of freedom and the rights of man which are the joint inheritance of the English-speaking world and which through Magna Carta, the Bill of Rights, the Habeas Corpus, trial by jury, and the English common law find their most famous expression in the American Declaration of Independence.† (source)
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Most of these men were common-law prisoners, but I knew there would be some political prisoners among them.† (source)
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"Little Women" (twice), "The Common Law,"† (source)
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Poor Bachelli was smitten by Helen and had been for years, even though he had a common-law Eritrean wife.† (source)
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'Why, you'd have to go to Doctors' Commons with a suit, and you'd have to go to a court of Common Law with a suit, and you'd have to go to the House of Lords with a suit, and you'd have to get an Act of Parliament to enable you to marry again, and it would cost you (if it was a case of very plain sailing), I suppose from a thousand to fifteen hundred pound,' said Mr. Bounderby.† (source)
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She had made a halfhearted start on a family tree, but on the paternal side, at least until her great-grandfather opened his humble hardware shop, the ancestors were irretrievably sunk in a bog of farm laboring, with suspicious and confusing changes of surnames among the men, and common-law marriages unrecorded in the parish registers.† (source)
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The nervous language of the Common Law,[585] the impressive forms of our courts, and the precision and substantial truth of the legal distinctions, are the contribution of all the sharp-sighted, strong-minded men who have lived in the countries where these laws govern.† (source)
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On being invited to come in and be seated he joked and said he preferred to wait outdoors as he was only wearing work clothes until the Gaddy woman, said to be his common-law wife, came outside the frame structure.† (source)
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