Sentence examples for common law rules from inspiring English sources

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).

The Act does not define occupier, but provides that the person to be treated as the occupier is the person who would be considered an occupier under common law rules.

The Court also laid down the common law rules of evidence in federal courts, including the hearsay exception for party admissions and the narrowing of the best evidence rule.

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.

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.

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