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The phrase "common law system" is correct and it is commonly used in written English.
It can be used to refer to a legal system based on the historically accumulated judicial decisions of judges, as opposed to a civil law system which relies on codified statutes and regulations. For example: "The United States follows a common law system, which has been developed over centuries from judicial opinions and customs."
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"This is part of our common law system".
"But the common law system is evidence you can have some transparency".
Under the country's common law system, practices have evolved largely through legal precedent, rather than legislation.
The principle has its genesis in the Magna Carta and the British common law system," he replied.
In our common law system, binding law is made in these highest courts as well as in parliament.
Like almost all top young Chinese lawyers, Lu and Yue are highly familiar with the common law system, having studied LLM masters degrees abroad.
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Economic analysis of law, however, has concentrated predominantly on the study of common law systems of adjudication.
Moreover, common law systems cannot be distinguished from legal systems consisting only of linguistic acts, because no legal system consists only of linguistic acts.
Arguments from precedent and analogy are two central forms of reasoning found in many legal systems, especially 'Common Law' systems such as those in England and the United States.
It is commonly noted that either system, common or civil, has a tendency to become somewhat mixed over time, as jurisprudence asserts its power in civil law, and as legislatures construct codes in common law systems.
Similarly illustrative examples can be found in other civil law systems of administrative law such as the German Verwaltungsverfahrensgesetz and can be easily discerned in the practice of common law systems such as the UK.
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