Sentence examples similar to common law stands from inspiring English sources

How can critical reason, common law, or individual opinion stand, when many claim a source of incontrovertible law from different worlds?

Stand-your-ground laws remove the common law requirement to retreat when a person is outside the castle, allowing that person to use deadly force in self-defense when there is reasonable belief of a threat.

Historically, the legal structure for the environmental movement in the United States stands on two fundamental principles of English common law: "Shared Commons" and "The Polluter Pays" (Hardin 1968).

Prior to the enactment of Florida's 2005 "Stand Your Ground" law, there existed a common law right to self-defense in the home: the "Castle Doctrine".

But yesterday the Master of the Rolls, Lord Neuberger, said the court would "take a stand" against secrecy that the judges said would undermine the "most fundamental principles of common law".

It said she had let stand the portion of the complaint concerning another unit, H&R Block Financial Advisers, but had dismissed allegations of common law fraud.

Common law impediments remained.

Arizona's law stands out.

Statute trumps any common law principle anyway".

Countries outside the common law tradition agree.

How does common law even work, really?