Cameroon's legal system is largely based on French civil law with common law influences.
"That one party will present his or her case unchallenged to the judge in the absence of the other party and his lawyers is inconsistent with the common law tradition of civil justice where proceedings are open, adversarial and equal," Justice warned.
Critics can also press their point by adhering to directives in ways that are consistent with their literal language but inconsistent with common practice or common sense – a tactic we call "uncivil obedience".
While 4561 is not remarkably high, it is clearly inconsistent with common sense.
Accepting this argument would mean that KFB and KFS have infringed their own copyrights — a proposition that is inconsistent with copyright law and common sense.
Their rights to adopt children were also recognised and 1998 saw the abolition of sodomy as a common law offence "inconsistent with the constitution".
"The Department's proposed approach reaches a result inconsistent with the unbroken common-law authorities holding the privilege, once asserted, is absolute and not subject to balancing," the brief said.
By focusing on the filing of baseless complaints, without any attention to whether those complaints will result in the waste of judicial resources, the Court vastly expands the contours of Rule 11, eviscerates Rule 41(a)(1), and creates a federal common law of malicious prosecution inconsistent with the limited mandate of the Rules Enabling Act.
However, a court cannot treat rules of customary international law as having been incorporated into Singapore common law if they are inconsistent with existing statutes.
What goes for inconsistent state law goes for a federal common law of waiver that might obscure a plan administrator's duty to act "in accordance with the documents and instruments". See Mertens v. Hewitt Associates, 508 U. S. 248.
The enormous leap that the state urges us to take is wholly inconsistent with the widely recognized principle that the evolution of the common law should occur gradually, predictably, and incrementally.
