common-law

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• In dealing with a First Amendment claim, common-law defenses should be the last thing they look at.

  Academic text (1996)

• Over time, the decisions of common-law judges will tend to converge to a common set of principles.

  Academic text (2016)

• We are the only country in the common-law world that uses the American rule.

  Academic text (2011)

• Plus, what if my common-law husband left me?

  Academic text (2009)

• Of course, a few common-law unions did lead eventually to marriage, but most did not.

  Academic text (2002)

• In analogous circumstances, federal courts would also lack the authority of common-law courts.

  Academic text (2016)

• All of this has led to the conclusion that we cannot return to a simple nineteenth-century common-law arrangement.

  Academic text (1997)

• There are fundamental differences between what the FTC is doing and the judicial common-law approach.

  Academic text (2016)

• "It's a flexible, common-law doctrine that the courts use to interpret statutes."

  Academic text (2003)

• In states without statutes, courts apply constitutional or common-law balancing tests.

  Academic text (2000)

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