The two systems are, after all, both based on English common law.

What's more, the judge said the decision was based on English common law.

He was the one who first established all our rights under the common law.

At common law a woman could own both real and personal property.

It covered most areas of the law common to all states.

"It will thus become a part of the common law."

Under common law a trial had to take place in the county where the crime happened.

That is a true marriage as all English common law knows.

It is considered a book of authority in English common law.

He was a specialist in common law and commercial cases.

And where would we find case law or whatever to tell us what this standard should be?

Social change through case law is a slow approach, to be sure.

There is a good deal of case law on the subject.

The role of the company director has until recently been defined by case law.

I think that there clearly is going to be case law written.

The case law on this question is not very consistent.

Then the 1986 ban comes in, and we get more case law.

However, its utility in American case law today is not clear.

But legal scholars say the case law is not so clear.

Comprehensive information about case law is difficult to come by.