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Example sentences for: common-law

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He justifiably laments the virtual disregard of statutory interpretation in law-school curricula, where the hoary common-law case-study method still predominates despite the fact that most law nowadays takes the form of statutes and regulations.
(Maybe even a day or two sooner if Slate 's hearty software developers are willing to suspend their centuries-old common-law right to a three-hour lunch break, double helpings of Caesar salad and salmon hash, and 1.3 liters of a tolerable sauvignon blanc, followed by a nap of at least two hours' duration.
Once on the bench, these judicial politicians (emboldened by their anything-goes common-law attitudes) will set about encoding the popular will into law, to the detriment of unpopular minorities.
A few of these students befriend their senators, or find some other way to become federal judges; by that time, they have internalized what Scalia calls the "common-law attitude," and they become a dangerous lot.
But even then common-law unions were valid.