Sentence examples for common law decisions from inspiring English sources

Mr. Miller predicted that "common law decisions in some of these areas will lead to state or federal requirements for multilingual labels".

Because the law administered by all except the local courts is based on English common law, decisions of the higher British courts are of persuasive value; in fact, a few statutes of the British Parliament that were declared by ordinance (decree) to apply to Zambia are in force so far as circumstances permit.

In a majority opinion today by Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, the Supreme Court said Mr. Rogers's rights were not violated because "the court's decision was a routine exercise of common law decision making in which the court brought the law into conformity with reason and common sense".

It is my understanding that the federal courts do not make common-law decisions because they only hear cases based on statutory or constitutional claims.

The amendment might also prevent judges from referring to the Ten Commandments or exploring English common law in their decisions.

William S. Richardson, who as chief justice of the Hawaii Supreme Court for 16 years was a leading proponent of the rights of native Hawaiians, often relying on ancestral custom rather than Western common law in his decisions, died Monday in Honolulu.

Thus the Court of Chancery had a far greater remit than the common law courts, whose decisions it had the jurisdiction to overrule for much of its existence, and was far more flexible.

The Supreme Court on Friday unanimously barred Mr. Blumenthal from relying on common law, established by judicial decisions instead of by statute.

(India like the UK follows common law, where previous judicial decisions have the power of legislation).

The rule was not in Tennessee's murder statute, but was part of the state's decision-based common law.

Coke's challenge to the ecclesiastical courts and their ex officio oath is seen as the origin of the right to silence; with his decision that common law courts could issue writs of prohibition against such oaths, and his arguments that such oaths were contrary to the common law (as found in his Reports and Institutes), Coke "dealt the crucial blow to the oath ex officio and to the High Commission".