The part of a sentence "common law by" can be correct and usable in written English, depending on the context in which it is used.
It is typically used in legal contexts, describing a law that has been established through court decisions rather than through legislation. An example of its usage could be: "The judge based her decision on the common law principles established by previous court cases."
Justices created a common law by drawing on customs across the country and rulings by monarchs.
Further, Connecticut argues that the political branches are always free to displace common law by further legislation if they so choose.
The Triennial Act (1694) ensured elections every three years, and the Act of Settlement (1701) sealed the supremacy of the common law by limiting the king's power to dismiss judges.
have defined the curtilage, as did the common law, by reference to the factors that determine whether an individual reasonably may expect that an area immediately adjacent to the home will remain private.
For canonical examples of investor protections developed as common law by Delaware's expert judiciary, see In re Caremark Int'l Inc., 698 A.2Del59 (Del. Ch. 1996); Smith v. Van Gorkom, 488 A.2Del58 (Del. 1985).
Whether security-based swap agreements between parties that do not otherwise have an interest in the underlying security would have been unenforceable under the common law by courts in the late twentieth century is a matter of some debate.
'The court further wishes to state that the control of the grand jury by common law and by statute law is under the court and the proceedings are under the control of the court.
The jurisdiction to determine the title to a public office belongs exclusively to the courts of law, and is exercised either by certiorari, error, or appeal, or by mandamus, prohibition, quo warranto, or information in the nature of a writ of quo warranto, according to the circumstances of the case, and the mode of procedure established by common law or by statute.
The reference is to crimes created or made punishable by the common law or by the statutes of the United States, when directly prejudicial to good order and military discipline.
Statutory oppressions in religion being thus wiped away, we remain at present under those only imposed by the common law, or by our own acts of assembly.
The judge in that case, Federal Judge John F. Keenan, ruled in favor of the defendants' motion to dismiss because the city's claims were displaced by both federal common law and by the Clean Air Act.
