Sentence examples for interpretation of common law from inspiring English sources

The immunity of a President from civil suits is not simply a doctrine derived from this Court's interpretation of common law or public policy.

Posse Comitatus, Latin for "power of the county," bases its philosophy of anti-tax agitation and resistance to central authority on interpretations of common law that grant citizens' groups the right to establish order in a lawless environment.

In such cases they act as if they were state courts, however, being bound by state statutes since 1842 and by state interpretations of common law and equity since 1938.

It can effect this balancing act so long as the judges, in whom the power of constitutional interpretation and enforcement has largely been placed, are willing to subject their deliberations to the discipline of common law reasoning.

The evolution of common law.

A recognition of common law marriage.

Such "faint-hearted originalism" (Scalia 1989) may reduce, in the end, to a form of living constitutionalism.[19] Indeed, as we shall see in the next section, the role of judicial interpretations of abstract constitutional provisions is central to that prominent form of living constitutionalism which views constitutional interpretation as a form of common-law reasoning.

Then, when the case comes to court, they reckon they can just talk their way out of punishment by using all sorts of pseudo-legalese and claiming that the only "true" law is their interpretation of the term "common law".

That advice became an authoritative departmental interpretation, an administrative common law applicable to Alaskan guide pilots.

A reasonable interpretation of the entire instructions is that the emergency instruction is only to be applicable to the plaintiff's charges of common-law negligence.

By excluding these companies from New York's narrow interpretation of "common carrier," New York has unfairly extended the application of its sales tax law to target the art market.