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Common-law   /kˈɑmən-lɔ/   Listen
Common-law

adjective
1.
Based on common law.



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"Common-law" Quotes from Famous Books



... Messrs. Stockton & Stokes, of the State of Maryland, against the Postmaster-General, and which have resulted in the payment of money out of the National Treasury, for the first time since the establishment of the Government, by judicial compulsion exercised by the common-law writ of mandamus issued by the circuit court of ...
— Complete State of the Union Addresses from 1790 to the Present • Various

... Wychecombe estate ought to go with the principles that usually governed such matters; and, although he submitted to the dictum of the common law, as regarded the provision which excluded the half-blood from inheriting, with the deference of an English common-law lawyer, he saw and felt, that, failing the direct line, Wychecombe ought to revert to the descendants of Sir Michael by his second son, for the plain reason that they were just as much derived from the person who had acquired the estate, as his ...
— The Two Admirals • J. Fenimore Cooper



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