Declaratory judgments are authorized by statute in most common-law jurisdictions.

Most common-law jurisdictions have enacted an anti-lapse statute to address this situation.

There are magistrates' courts in other common-law jurisdictions.

An obvious ancient practice of exchange, in many common-law jurisdictions it is now governed by statutory law.

Hearsay is one of the largest and most complex areas of the law of evidence in common-law jurisdictions.

Jim and Joan are charged with murder in a common-law jurisdiction.

This rule has been replaced in most common-law jurisdictions by bona vacantia or a similar concept.

The ruling does not contain a ratio decidendi in the style of common-law jurisdictions.

Unlike common-law jurisdictions, there is no doctrine of binding precedent (stare decisis) in France.

In common-law jurisdictions the nineteenth century saw a rapid development in contract doctrine to accommodate the changing market.