Use "common law" in a sentence

1. The common law of England, indeed, is said to abhor perpetuities, and they are accordingly more restricted there than in any other European monarchy ; though even England is not altogether without them

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2. But the feudal law is not supposed to have become the common law of England till after the Conquest

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3. established as the common law of the kingdom in all ordinary cases

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4. It has far reaching effects on your estate and is known as the common law wife principle

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5. From what I gather he used his common law wife to pick his victims up at school and other places

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6. No one foresaw him being identified and immediately driving away at top speed and then killing himself and his common law wife! He knew what was waiting for him and there is no way that under normal circumstances he would have escaped

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7. Forensic Law uses modern Acts which were not historically part of the Common Law and will never be

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8. So it cannot be Common Law either but certainly is contains some elements of Common Law which I will explain below

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9. I think in a certain sense it is Common Law but cannot classify it as such because of the new Acts involved

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10. The question is where Natural Justice is classified? I believe that it is under Common Law or should be for it is ancient principles which are not codified

11. And I do verily believe, that if the principle were to prevail, of a common law being in force in the U

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12. “The traditional common law holding is that a corpse does not have pecuniary value”

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13. At the time, my father had a “live-in-girl-friend”, but that status changed from “girl-friend” to “common law wife”, coincidently and very conveniently a few days after my dad died

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14. She, “the newly appointed common law wife” and “caretaker” of my fathers estate, decided to take the second cheapest coffin in the funeral parlour

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15. The same day, a last will and testament is produced which states that she, the now “common law wife” gets half of everything

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16. Because Motorola had just paid the previous summer in Chicago for me to study for the IL bar exam on their nickel and time during days M-Th in the Loop, it was presumed (correctly) that I remembered something from the core subjects which were the same in common law and community property states

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17. Amendment #7: In Suits at common law, where the value in

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18. than according to the rules of the common law

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19. was adopted from English Common Law that at one time (early

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20. The term “crime of passion” is an old British Common Law term and was developed during a time when passion commonly referred to any very strong emotion, whether positive or negative

21. The offense developed under the common law, but most states that still recognize the crime of larceny have codified its elements into their penal code

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22. It originally developed under the common law, but states have incorporated the basic idea of burglary into their penal codes, albeit with some slight modifications

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23. For instance, under the common law definition of burglary, the crime had to take place in the dwelling house of another at night

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24. United States law regarding robbery has its roots in the common law that we inherited from the English legal system

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25. While most states have codified their robbery laws in their penal codes, in the absence of such a statute the common law definition would still apply

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26. Common law defined rape as unlawful intercourse by a man against a woman who is not his wife by force or threat and against her will

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27. English common law, a husband had the right to beat his wife, subject to the "rule of thumb," which prevented him from using a stick any broader than his thumb {Heise

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28. A week before year-end finals, he was lecturing on one of the pivotal statues they used to justify their views when he claimed that the origin of this statute was British Common Law

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29. If you use British Common Law as the basis for the statute, you can use it for justification for the Conservative position on the Swordsman secession

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30. common law offence of rape and replaced it with a new

31. The common law offence of rape

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32. common law which consisted of the carnal knowledge of a

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33. Wills and trusts have an interesting history in a culture as heavily influenced by British common law as our own

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34. common law and within these latitudes there are possibilities for us to be

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35. Common laws that apply to all Protectorates apply to Mars

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36. Napoleon enslaved all of Europe by his Napoleonic Code replacing the old traditional Common Law system

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37. “Now that isn’t cause for concern and you know it! Even if it wasn’t entirely legal per se, common law would say we’re married

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38. which the common law of enjoyment had subjected him to; and now his

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39. In Suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise re-examined in any Court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law

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40. '—'You have determined, then, to abandon her to the common law?" said Carlini

41. In suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise reexamined in any Court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law

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42. But the vigour of nature, soon returning, dissipated the blast of faintness which the common law of enjoyment had subjected him to; and now his basket re-became his main concern, which I looked for, and brought him, whilst Louisa restored his dress to its usual condition, and afterwards pleased him perhaps more by taking all his flowers off his hands, and paying him, at his rate, for them, than if she had embarrassed him by a present, that he would have been puzzled to account for, and might have put others on tracing the motives of

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43. Non-control investors are also supposed to be the beneficiaries of various state laws and regulations, including blue sky statutes governing terms and conditions under which new issues may be offered;3 antitakeover statutes; statutes aimed at controlling going-private transactions; more generalized common law and state statutory requirements covering the fiduciary obligations of those in control of corporations to unaffiliated common stockholders; and statutes defining appraisal remedies when stockholders dissent from force-out mergers or similar force-out transactions

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44. Reconciling these different countries’ legal systems wasn’t easy: Britain and America based their systems on English Common Law, the French system was based on Roman principles, while the Soviet idea of a trial was to introduce the accused formally to his firing squad

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45. Randolph,) and adopted by the House, on the subject of prosecutions for libel at common law; but not being able to get the floor, he would now beg leave to move his by way of instruction to the same committee

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46. said, had been charged with an inquiry into what prosecutions for libel at common law had been instituted in the courts of the United States, which he hoped the committee would duly make, and lay before the House

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47. While we are about to bring to our view all the cases of prosecution for libel under the common law, we are not likely to know any thing about prosecutions for libel which had occurred under the sedition law, and that too under a different Administration

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48. But, sir, said he, since the other inquiry has been gone into, it cannot be unfair to say that the majority of the House owe it to themselves to extend the inquiry, as well to cases of prosecution under the sedition law, as to those under the common law; and I shall be permitted to say also, they owe it as well to the feelings and sufferings of the gentleman to whom I have alluded

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49. Resolved, That the committee, appointed to inquire into what prosecutions for libels at common law have been instituted before the courts of the United States, be instructed to inquire what prosecutions for libels have been instituted before the courts of the United States under the second section of the act entitled "An act in addition to an act, entitled 'An act for the punishment of certain crimes against the United States,'" passed the 14th day of July, 1798, and the expediency of remunerating the sufferers under such prosecutions

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50. He said he had certainly no objection to inquire, though he conceived that prosecutions at common law and under the sedition law were essentially different; because, supposing the Congress of the United States to pass such a law, the courts of the United States might take cognizance of it; but, without such a law, it did not belong to the judiciary to extend its care to the protection of the Government from slander

51. ,) who decided that the court had no jurisdiction at common law in suits for libel; and the Supreme Court of the United States never did decide the question

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52. The strong contrast is this: that while there was a description of men who said that no prosecution could be had at common law for libel, nor under the statute which modified the common law so as to allow the truth to be given in evidence—who, while they excited indignation against this statute, should afterwards undertake to institute prosecutions at common law where there was no limitation in favor of the defendant

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53. Thus the indictment, which was the foundation of the barbarous treatment I received, carried on its front its own condemnation; but this defect was remedied by the ingenuity of the party judge, who dexterously mingled his assertions that the crime was cognizable under the common law, with his admonitions to a pliant jury not to be deterred from finding a verdict where the man who wrote was a member of Congress, and knew the sedition law was about to be passed, and probably hurried his letter to evade the law

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54. As respected the whole of this subject, he said he was very free to declare that as regarded those who had been prosecuted at common law in the State of Connecticut, who had certainly been at very considerable expense, their defence perhaps having cost them several thousand dollars, yet, on the principle of correct legislation, he had not the least idea of remunerating them

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55. I feel no hesitation in acknowledging that it is my opinion that all the sufferers ought to be remunerated, both those who suffered under the sedition law, and those who suffered under the common law

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56. I hope and trust that with this investigation will be connected an inquiry into the prosecutions at common law in Connecticut

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57. What is the nature of the title set up by the gentleman from Vermont? Not under the treaty, he has candidly owned, but he supposes a title to exist on the ground of certain quaint principles of the common law, relative to the doctrines of estoppel and occupancy

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58. I am extremely happy, sir, to find that honorable gentleman introducing the common law as authority upon this floor, especially on so great an occasion

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59. Was not the royal family decoyed by artifice from Madrid to Bayonne? Was not the old Monarch compelled to resign his crown to Ferdinand the Seventh, and was not that Prince a prisoner of Bonaparte; and, while in this condition, and, for aught we know, the bayonet at his breast, or the cup to his lips, constrained to resign his crown to the Emperor of France? Sir, what sort of title is this? Upon the eternal principles of justice, upon the principles of the common law and common sense, an instrument thus obtained is not obligatory on the party executing it

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60. The word necessary, in its technical and legal sense, in the meaning affixed to it in common parlance, established by usage, custom, reason, and the common law of the land, is different and distinct from the signification of the same adjective derived from the substantive necessity, as used by Hobbes, Hutchinson, Hume, and the other metaphysicians of the last century

61. To that legal or artificial person, once created, the common law of every State, of itself, annexes all those incidents and attributes which are represented as a prostration of the main pillars of their jurisprudence

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62. Permit me to inquire of that gentleman whether he ever saw a law authorizing one man to give another his promissory note? He may search the pandects of Justinian; he may turn over the leaves of the musty volumes written upon the common law, from the days of Bracton and Fleta down to the present day, and his search will be in vain

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63. It had not guarded against an establishment of religion; it had not secured the right of the people to keep and bear arms; it had not guarded against soldiers being quartered in our houses in time of peace, without our consent, it had not guarded against warrants being issued without oath; it had not guarded against a man's being put to answer without previous indictment; it had not secured the criminal in the trial by jury; it had not secured the trial by jury in cases of common law, and these omissions as due guards to the liberty of the citizens stand recorded in these amendments almost coeval with the instrument

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64. Randolph had no doubt it would be recollected, that at the first session of Congress under the administration of the present President, the session which met in May, 1809, a committee was raised "to inquire whether any and what prosecutions had been instituted before the courts of the United States for libels at common law, and to report such provisions as in their opinion may be necessary for securing the freedom of speech and of the press

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65. He thought it behooved this House, as the guardian of the public purse and public weal, to take care that the stream of public justice be preserved pure and free from pollution; and whether persons have suffered by prosecutions under the sedition law, or under the common law of England—not the common law of the United States, as modified by the laws of the United States in their corporate capacity—he was for affording them relief

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66. "With instructions to inquire whether any, and what, prosecutions have been instituted before the courts of the United States for libels, under the sedition law or the common law, and by what authority; and to make such provisions as they may deem necessary for securing the freedom of speech and of the press

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67. did not suppose that a prosecution at common law, for a libel, could take place under a republican administration

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68. He said, if we don't establish a written, decent rule, we must have a common law rule, such as they have in the British House of Commons, to shuffle and put down, when the abuse of this privilege becomes enormous

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69. if the committee inquire in the case of libels at common law it is proper they should inquire in the other case, 133;

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