Sentence examples for common laws from inspiring English sources

The drafters of the Japanese Civil Code of 1896 surveyed many legal systems, including the French, Swiss, and common laws, taking something from each.

"Many states have broad statutory and common laws protecting an individual's right to privacy," he said, adding that in such states, the facts presented could very well constitute an illegal intrusion into the letter writer's privacy.

"Prisoners, even terrorists, have the right to their medical records, according to federal laws, common laws, the American Medical Association, and court trials," Arthur Caplan, a bioethicist at the University of Pennsylvania, says.

Mr. Jospin's address befitted his reputation as man of detail, covering subjects from the need to have common laws that would, for instance, deal with divorces of binational couples to proposals for tax harmonization and a new way of choosing the president of the European Commission, the union's executive commmittee.

"There's nothing in writing, but there's several state laws and common laws relating to conflict of interests, especially on the financial side, that we would adhere to just like any state agency would adhere to," said Anthony de Bruyn, a spokesman for the system.

The dynamic model of the system, defmed from the common laws of physics, is nonlinear.

Common law impediments remained.

"There is common law.

Statute trumps any common law principle anyway".

Countries outside the common law tradition agree.

How does common law even work, really?