common law

common law, tapaoikeus

ennakkotapaus puhekieltä law Law developed by judges, courts, and agency adjudicatory tribunals, through their decisions and opinions (also called case law) (as opposed to statute law|statutes promulgated by legislatures, and regulations promulgated by the executive branch).
puhekieltä Legal system mainly in England and its former colonies with a heavy emphasis on judge-made law, doctrines deduced by casuistry rather than from general principles, and law distributed among judicial decisions rather than codified statutes (as opposed to civil law).
puhekieltä Body of law and procedure administered in certain courts (known as law courts) in England and its former colonies characterized by a rigid system of writs, with a limited set of remedies (as opposed to equity or admiralty).
puhekieltä Law of general application throughout a country, province, or state as opposed to law having only a special or local application
case law, decisional law, judge-made law, precedential law
statute
equity, admiralty
civil law, Roman law, ius commune, canon law, ecclesiastical law
puhekieltä (l) (gloss)