Sentence examples for common lawyer from inspiring English sources

Justice Ginsburg appeared to be "a cautious, incrementalist common lawyer," and Justice Breyer "an antiformalist problem solver".

This period includes the years from the publication of the civilian Sir Thomas Ridley's major work, A View of the Ecclesiastical and Civile Law in 1607 to the publication of the common lawyer Charles Molloy's great Treatise of Affairs Maritime and of Commerce in 1676.

Rather than reviewing my book, Tribe has written a common lawyer's brief, employing the sorts of tricks lawyers use to diminish a position they must attack: overreading, underreading or simply misreading complex arguments; taking snippets of quotations out of context; attributing contrived motives to an author or far-fetched consequences to a position; and so forth.

Indeed part of the skill of a good common lawyer is grasping the law as not stated by the earlier court: learning that cases are 'distinguishable' is a staple part of common law education, and no common lawyer would be competent who did not appreciate that the law was not to be identified simply with the ratio of an earlier decision.

Instead of an appeal from facts, it admits of a second, or even third trial by different juries, and mistakes in points of law, are rectified by superior courts in the form of a writ of error--and to a mere common lawyer, unskilled in the forms of the civil law courts, the words appeal from law and fact, are mere nonsense, and unintelligible absurdity.

Histories like Ms. Clifford's are becoming more common, lawyers warn.

The common lawyers' opposition stemmed from the traditional hostility between lay and church courts.

The opposition that eventually destroyed the commission came principally from the Puritans, the common lawyers, and the common-law judges.

On the other hand, it is likely that individual interaction with personal machines, domestic robots, and so forth, will also affect what U.S. common lawyers sum up with the Katz's test as a reasonable "expectation of privacy".

German's seminal Doctor and Student in 1523 to the storm of protest from common lawyers following the publication of John Cowell's highly controversial The Interpreter in 1607.

Rather, their lasting achievement has been the significant influence that their ideas about law-their "legal ideology --have exercideology --have common lawyers.