com|mon-law

com|mon-law
1. law based on custom and usage and confirmed by the decisions of judges, as distinct from statute law.
2. the law of all countries whose legal systems derive from English law, as distinct from civil or canon law.
3. law based on the decisions of judges in actual cases; case law.
com|mon-law «KOM uhn L», adjective.
of or having to do with common law.

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