English synonyms about - contact  

jump to corresponding sense entry

jump to corresponding sense entry

common law

noun

1 common law

civil law A law established by following earlier judicial decisions.

synonyms: case law, precedent.

Roget 124: oldness etc. adj.; age, antiquity; cobwebs of antiquity.    maturity; decline, decay; senility etc. 128.    seniority, eldership, ... show more

Roget 963: legality; legitimacy, legitimateness.    legislature; law, code, corpus juris [Lat.], constitution, pandect, charter, enactment, statute, rule; canon ... show more

Polish: precedens

2 common law

A system of jurisprudence based on judicial precedents rather than statutory laws:
— Common law originated in the unwritten laws of England and was later applied in the United States.

synonyms: case law, precedent.


Moby thesaurus: Corpus Juris Canonici, Mishnah, Roman law, Spiritus Mundi, Sunna, Talmud, admiralty law, ancient wisdom, archetypal myth, archetypal pattern, blue law, canon law, case law, chancery law, civil law, commercial law, constitutional law, corporation law, criminal law, crown law ... show more.

Find more on common law elsewhere: etymology - rhymes - Wikipedia.

debug info: 0.0394