1. common law - Noun
2. common law - Adjective
3. common law - Adjective Satellite
(civil law) a law established by following earlier judicial decisions
a system of jurisprudence based on judicial precedents rather than statutory laws
based on common law
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Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason - the law which is perfection of reason. Edward Coke
A large plural society cannot be governed without recognizing that, transcending its plural interests, there is a rational order with a superior common law. Walter Lippmann
And of course we are familiar with the English common law rule of thumb that said a man could in fact use a stick no bigger than his thumb to discipline his wife and family. Patricia Ireland
The common law is not a brooding omnipresence in the sky, but the articulate voice of some sovereign or quasi sovereign that can be identified; although some decisions with which I have disagreed seem to me to have forgotten the fact. Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
It is difficult to struggle with the common law. Edward Law, 1st Baron Ellenborough
The unwritten law - the common law. Traditional Proverb