Sentence examples for common law rule from inspiring English sources

According to the common law rule, I discovered, a false report of death is not on its own considered libelous.

But this is not the case in defamation which, predictably, clings on to a very old common law rule: actio personalis moritur cum persona.

In many states, the year-and-a-day rule, a 19th-century common law rule, prevents new charges from being filed if a victim dies more than 366 days after the initial injury.

Above all the proposals interfere with statutes that have slept for over 300 years and a common law rule of far greater antiquity," he said.

In his brilliant book, Law and Disorder in Cyberspace, Forbes columnist Peter Huber says we should let common law rule the telecosm.

A common law rule from Great Britain permits searches incident to an arrest without a warrant.

Our domestic judges have become far more accustomed to dealing with some of the broad principles of EU law (such as proportionality or judicial effectiveness), but even so a supranational court may be more receptive to arguments which, say, threaten some sacred cow of common law rule-making which looks a bit odd from a continental perspective.

Many common law rules of contract when tested in the digital environment strain to remain effective while others are able to remain unchanged.

The NLRA makes huge changes in ordinary common law rules under which the employer should have no say in union affairs.

One problem is that male primogeniture - which gives younger brothers the right to become monarchs ahead of their elder sisters - is based on many centuries of common law rules of property, not any one piece of legislation.

Federal courts accepted these common law rules and expressly applied them in United States v. Reid (1852).