Should it include both common law and legislation, or just common law?
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It has many aspects of a civil law system — the United States has a common law system — but it also has elements of Islamic law and elements of common law.
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The protesters, which is to say the armed occupiers of the federal land, assert that within a week, they will be summoning a common-law jury and a common-law trial under the direction of a man they say is a common-law judge named Bruce Doucette who has traveled in from Colorado.
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"The irony here is Hong Kong courts, being common law courts, would be using common law techniques to interpret an interpretation handed down from a Leninist legal system," Professor Chan said.
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But there's still room for liability under state common law.
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Unsurprisingly, birthright citizenship came to America with English common law.
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The [British] common law designated homosexuality as an inherent evil.
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" There was, however, English common law I ran that idea by Michael Zeldin, a CNN legal analyst, and he generally agreed, but added this about the Framers: "What they did know was English common law.
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The term "natural born" had its roots in English common law.
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These new suits fall under state common law, specifically tort law.
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Habeas corpus, an ancient common-law principle, guards against arbitrary imprisonment.
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In 1992, his common-law wife died of a brain aneurysm.
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And [municipalities] have had some success with federal common-law cases.
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None of the claims involve criminal or common law fraud, Davis said.
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The house had come tumbling down; Jean's common-law husband was missing.
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The cases argue that state common law has not been similarly displaced.
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It has developed long-established common law principles in a new direction.
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Its contention is that the use of bulk hacking, "fundamentally undermines 250 years of English common law", arguing that common law "has long rejected general warrants" and "is clear that a warrant must target an identified individual or individuals".
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Common Law and precedent has, at least in the modern era, prevented chaos.
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Curry was recruiting volunteers for a common law grand jury in Montrose County.
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So what common law restrictions might interfere with Trump's ability to pardon Manafort?
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BFI argued that under common law it is "direct" and "immediate" that matters.
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The original American colonies adopted many procedures akin to England's common-law methods.
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We live in California, which means we are not even common-law married.
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That's a core principle, codified in the First Amendment and centuries of common law.
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Misconduct in office, a 19th-century common law offense, is the most serious allegation.
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Opening locked iPhones through these methods has become more common, law enforcement officials said.
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Vanessa Galindo Blas lost her common-law husband, Erick Hernandez Enriquez, to the blaze.
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We don't really know her, and there is no common law right to courtesy.
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Opening locked iPhones through these methods has become more common, law enforcement officials said.
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Her common-law husband, Vasily I. Yurchik, 40, a Ukrainian, worked various construction jobs.
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But did those new laws do away with the existing ineffective common law remedies?
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The term is currently under common law trademark, indicating intent to copyright, by Caribbeing.
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Connecticut, the Clean Air Act displaces federal common law claims based on fossil fuel emissions.
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In fact, common-law marriage has not legally existed in England since the 16th century.
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First lawyers went on strike against the erosion of the English-style common-law system.
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Some other common law countries, including England and Australia, have no criminal statutes of limitations.
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"Since 1975, we were considered married by common law in Rhode Island," Mr. Carpenter said.
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Sorry: Barbecuing the flesh of one's late common-law wife does not conjure the nation.
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Under common law, the crime of riot requires the assemblage of three or more actors.
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Castro has five sons with his common-law wife since the 1960s, Dalia Soto del Valle.
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Unlike common law, statutory laws are passed by Congress and signed into law by the president.
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The principle, known as jus soli, or right of the soil, comes from English common law.
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In the 1800s, this common law "rule of incompetency" was denounced by figures like Jeremy Bentham.
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The Seventh Amendment's commitments to rule of law, and fidelity to the rules of common law.
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Generations of law students have been taught that it is a relic of British common law.
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The idea of "jus soli," the right of the soil, goes back to English common law.
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So Franklin and the framers turned to a provision of British common law known as impeachment.
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Suits and sneakers arrived in common-law marriages, with pocket squares in Crayola expansion-pack colors.
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Sessions alluded to those common law privileges in addition to the executive privilege in his testimony.
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I read the complaint as claiming public nuisance generally, but probably relying on state common law.
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"It's all made up," said Hopkins' common-law wife Fay Murphy, 60, of the government's allegations.
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Reuters added that he was known to police for common law crimes but not to intelligence services.
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Both judges determined that federal common law governs the cities' claims because pollution is an interstate issue.
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The deadly encounter between the neighbors was recorded on video by Howard's common-law wife Kara Box.
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Precedent in several common-law jurisdictions makes exceptions for those set up for the maintenance of animals.
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The new laws exist in a dual system alongside a system based on common law, CNN reports.
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The most significant is a common law rule requiring pardons to specify the offenses that are absolved.
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Common-law crimes are no harder to define with precision than crimes written down in a statute.
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In the seventies, Cohen had two children, Lorca and Adam, with his common-law wife, Suzanne Elrod.
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"The constitutional libel rules adopted by this Court in New York Times and its progeny broke sharply from the common law of libel, and there are sound reasons to question whether the First and Fourteenth Amendments displaced this body of common law," he wrote in his 14-page opinion.
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He allegedly has a few ex-girlfriends with whom "may have had common-law relationships," ABC 13 reported.
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The plaintiffs, including some from New York, also brought federal common law and New York state law claims.
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For now, plaintiffs approach state courts because federal statutes do not displace common law at the state level.
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"Each of them suffered one or more of the constitutional, statutory, and common law violations," the ACLU said.
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Though he maintained a room in residence, Maloney had a common-law wife, Melissa Facciolo, and a son.
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The most piercing lyricism is reserved for Wozzeck's common-law wife, Marie, who falls victim to his madness.
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His case, he noted, is grounded instead in state common law, which was unaffected by the prior rulings.
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Many of these countries have a common law-based legal system and constitutions that take inspiration from America.
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He had been the common-law husband of Ms. Anderson's other daughter, Kimberly, who died several years earlier.
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Grande is seeking $10 million in damages for copyright infringement, common law trademark infringement and other alleged offenses.
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Nor do the current federal bribery statutes define the common law crime of bribery referenced in the Constitution.
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Eventually, she began a relationship with Humphrey's son, Richard, which led to a common-law marriage of love.
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One is a principle of Common Law known as "restraint on alienation" that dates back to the 13th century.
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"Because of that paper, I advised him not to have unprotected sex with his common-law wife," she said.
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The source described the suspect as a Tunisian national living in France, known to police for common law crimes.
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Common law and the First Amendment, the group argued, presume that the public has a right to court proceedings.
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Courts cannot perform the delicate balancing required by the First Amendment and common law doctrines under such uncertain circumstances.
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Lawmakers will vote later on Tuesday on a bill to convert many of those emergency measures into common law.
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Her public defender, John Campion, told the judge that Dais&apos common-law husband abandoned her late last year.
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Our law is derived from English common law, and a feudal system historically designed to protect landowners' proprietary interests.
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We are brought up to respect the legal system that was handed down to us through English common law.
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Ron denies the common law marriage, and says Margo has absolutely no legal proof she was ever his wife.
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"Both the common law and the Syariah law aim to ensure peace and harmony of the country," he said.
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But the daughter of the woman's partner argues that she's the victim of bias against common-law gay marriage.
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The US Supreme Court has ruled that the federal Clean Air Act preempts any claims under federal common law.
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And in the common law, "natural born" did not apply to children born outside the bounds of the country.
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Firms operating there will be subject to rules based on English common law, enforced by independent courts, the government promises.
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Due to the practice of "coverture," which remained from British common law, married women's rights were controlled by their husbands.
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The idea that one cannot consent to harm is a basic principle of common law that has existed for centuries.
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Kamil and his common law wife Hasiya live in the village of Setovo, not far from the city of Tobolsk.
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There is historical support in common law misprision doctrine, dating back to 1628, suggesting that public officials have special responsibilities.
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Some convened their own "common law" grand juries and "indicted" officials for ostensibly failing to uphold their oaths of office.
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The rule was created during the 17th century as part of English common law, when women were considered men's property.
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He initially introduced Shariah law in 2014, giving the country a dual legal system with both Shariah and Common Law.
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Jen and I are essentially neighbors (at least by city common law), so I have some investment in the relationship.
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"It is a judgment that has profound human rights importance that will resonate throughout the common law world," he said.
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We are the source of the English language, the common law and occupy the ideal time zone for global trade.
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It's not the first time Biden has spoken out about how violence against women dates back to English common law.
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Neil's first his first partner, Jacqueline Peart, with whom he had a common-law marriage, died from cancer in 1998.
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The brave, tear-gassed youth of Hong Kong defending the vibrant economy born of Chinese industry and English common law.
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Protecting "the" freedom of speech also incorporated long-standing common law principles about the limitations of libel, slander, and reputation.
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Married women could not own property, since, under common law, they were themselves considered, essentially, the property of their husbands.
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They imbued the rules with the tradition of open trials that had evolved over centuries of Anglo-American common law.
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Also on January 22, according to Adams' affidavit, two constables interviewed Katie Brown, who is described as Kiessling's common-law partner.
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These legal concepts go back to 17th-century English common law, in which much of American law still finds its basis.
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It contrived ways of limiting the power of the state through parliament and the common law before any other big country.
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The lawsuit alleged breach of warranty under the federal Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act, California common law and the California Commercial Code.
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It is a fundamental tenet of common law justice systems that prosecution decisions are made with reference to the public interest.
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Beyond originating from common law that treated women as akin to farm animals, these torts police morality and regulate personal relationships.
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But she warned that "considerations of public policy may justify a change in the common law" when old laws appear outdated.
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Regular visitors include Mr. Perry (Tom Nelis), an elderly shoemaker whom Nick hopes might take Marianne as a common-law wife.
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The decision was largely symbolic because the team could still use its name and enforce its trademarks, using common-law rights.
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It's connected to that ancient belief, of which the common law is only one example, that being clean will save you.
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Right of blood Jus soli derives from common law, the system used in most English-speaking countries and former British colonies.
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"Under common law, there is a presumption that the public has access to all judicial records," wrote federal Judge James Bredar.
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He said that he thinks the common law has shown there needs to be both bad intent and a bad act.
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These legal concepts go back to 17th century English common law, in which much of American law still finds its basis.
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A new common law principle, Wheeler argues, could be a potential solution for how data privacy laws are interpreted for the future.
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The view from centuries ago In the 211th century and until about 19643, abortions were allowed under common law and widely practiced.
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She was the common-law wife of Amedy Coulibaly, one of the three attackers, but the level of her involvement remains unclear.
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These "Star Chamber" courts were once a popular vehicle for the British monarchy to expedite legal conflicts outside of common-law courts.
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Younger euroskeptics also contend that European institutions lack democratic legitimacy, and that Britain's history and common law legal system sets it apart.
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He wrote a paper on the dissemination of non-consensual pornography, which discusses the common law tort intentional infliction of emotional distress.
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In common law, later rulings carry more precedential weight than earlier rulings in order to maintain the continuity of people's legitimate expectations.
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Congress needs to seriously examine of the basis and scope of this common-law privilege in the context of an oversight investigation.
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Or perhaps we have collectively written this amendment into our common law: For these fleeting and glorious moments, we may stand still.
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Like the right-of-way in English common law, maritime freedom could lapse over time if no one makes use of it.
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In Saudi Arabia, where there is no written constitution, classical Islamic legal principles function as a kind of unwritten, common-law constitution.
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In America, the legal meaning of "due process" derives from the common law tradition, the Bill of Rights, laws and court precedents.
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Margo's story is the 2 had a common law marriage in Texas and lived together as husband and wife in California too.
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That fundamental principle is not limited to American law; it was also part of Roman law, Islamic law and English common law.
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Cameroon has two often-conflicting legal systems, English common law in the Anglophone region and the French civil code in the Francophone.
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"Cork articulates no link between the lease provision and the District's common law of unfair competition, and we see none," Griffith wrote.
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Scholars say that silence is likely because the meaning of the term was well understood from English common law and parliamentary practice.
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Instead, it alleges deceptive and unfair business practices under Illinois' consumer protection law, as well as violations of common-law privacy rights.
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Ours is a common-law system, in which one case follows another and legal doctrine emerges from the crucible of decided cases.
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But in making this observation, the Supreme Court cast no doubt on Congress's power to punish someone for a common-law crime.
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The other side argues that the pair were common-law spouses and should be accorded the same rights as a heterosexual couple.
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Hopkins, the UCP's national commander, told the agents that his common-law wife owned the weapons in question, according to court papers.
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He refers to those rules as attempts to put in place common law principles that would establish expectations about companies' responsibilities to consumers.
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Court records are presumed to be open, under centuries-old common law, and defendants have a right to refute the allegations against them.
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In court documents, Michael Rotondo referred to a "common law requirement of six-month notice to quit" before a tenant may be removed.
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Political wrongs recognized under English common law included misapplication of funds and abuse of power, and even interfering with another branch of government.
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Polls suggest that more than half of Britons believe that long-term cohabitees are in a "common-law" marriage; no such institution exists.
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Since common law permitted pardons at certain stages in the impeachment process, the Framers had to be clear that our Constitution did not.
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But the common law and long accepted rules of legal ethics preclude anyone from being a judge in his or her own case.
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At a CNN Philippines town hall event in February that year he admitted that he had three girlfriends and a common-law wife.
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But the notion that a company should pay for damages it knowingly causes to another's property is deeply rooted in our common law.
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There are few legal drawbacks in not having a state-sanctioned wedding since common law couples receive similar rights and benefits in Israel.
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Reflecting a clear distrust of women's honesty, rape at common law was the only crime requiring corroboration above and beyond the victim's testimony.
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Our common law should be amended so that we can't claim that our A.I. system did something that we couldn't understand or anticipate.
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They develop organically over time, with trial and error, as the work of many hands (an example is the common law of England).
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Many, if not most, states — including Schatz's state of Hawaii — have constitutional provisions or "reception statutes" formally adopting the common law of England.
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" The contract for Louisiana Strawberry Festival queens notes that "marriage, pregnancy or living in common law during the reign" results in "immediate dismissal.
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And what if we could breathe new life into the old common law to battle pollution where the federal laws have proven inadequate?
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The neighbors sued under a revived common-law nuisance theory, but the mining company says the federal remedy crowds out all state remedies.
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In the fall of 2000, he delivered a series of lectures for the Lowell Institute, later published under the title The Common Law.
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Common-law crimes aren't as common as they once were because they generally have been replaced by statutes, especially at the federal level.
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Opinion: Brett Kavanaugh and I have a lot in common Law professor Jennifer Taub and Brett Kavanaugh were both raised with conservative politics.
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These thresholds must consider all legal obligations and rights under statute, regulation, contract and common law in the event of a ransomware attack.
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" Today, however, the use of the royal prerogative in the United Kingdom is "subject to the common law duties of fairness and reason.
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Under common law, the 14th Amendment, and Wong Kim Ark, those born in the United States to noncitizen parents are considered natural-born citizens.
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Why did she endure the arid Texas landscape, with nothing but her common-law husband&aposs black cap to shield her from the sun?
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Our legal system is mainly based on common law, meaning that the courts look to past cases for guidance to decide similar cases today.
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Lister is also considered by some to be the "first modern lesbian", taking a local heiress named Ann Walker as her common-law wife.
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Every individual, Curry came to believe, was a sovereign citizen and had the right to create their own courts and juries following common law.
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New Zealand has a common law tradition of free expression, but the government can declare certain controversial materials as illegal to own and distribute.
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Financing someone else's lawsuit in return for some of the profits used to be called champerty, and under English common law it was illegal.
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DOMINIC CUMMINGS: Yes, and it bites every day with the collision between the EU and parliamentary government, common law and our civil service administration.
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Bundy wants the county to allow for a common law jury, outside of the court system, to hear evidence against the judge and others.
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Earlier Wednesday, a spokesman for a self-proclaimed common law judge said a grand jury could form within a week and hold a trial.
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At first, the Supreme Court said, public officials could cite traditional common-law defenses of good faith and reasonableness to overcome Section 1983 lawsuits.
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The situation involved yet another man with a long history with Ms. Anderson: Sonny Nicholas, 0003, Geno's father and Ms. Anderson's common-law husband.
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Under Hong Kong's common law legal system, like others around the world, both the prosecution and the convicted can seek an appeal of sentence.
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So when the Framers talked in terms of Bribery, Treason and Other High Crimes and Misdemeanors they were referring back to English Common Law.
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A few months later, the man murdered his common law wife by "beating her brains out with an ax," according to a local newspaper.
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The Supreme Court long ago observed that Congress has never passed a law giving all federal district courts jurisdiction to hear common-law crimes.
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The bill establishes a whole new definition of "joint employer" that is far narrower than agencies, courts and the common law have ever used.
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But an employee can still bring a common-law invasion of privacy claim, said Jonathan Segal, partner and managing principal at Duane Morris LLP.
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King Henry II ruled for 35 years and laid the foundation for English common law, which still underpins jurisprudence in the English-speaking world.
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I visited London in January and scoured the internet to speak with Maloney's family, friends, collaborators, as well as his common law wife's lawyer.
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Or: If Congress were to repeal the EPA's ability to regulate greenhouse gases, that could trigger a wave of common law suits against polluters.
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The plain language of the 14th Amendment guarantees birthright citizenship, which was the common law rule before the Supreme Court's infamous Dred Scott case.
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The lawsuit claims direct infringement of copyright, contributory infringement of copyright and violation of the Right of Publicity under California Common Law, among other things.
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Hong Kong's robust legal system, based on British common law, still makes it immensely valuable to a country that lacks credible courts of its own.
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Blair Suffredine, Mr Blackmore's lawyer, is defending his client on grounds that society recognises the legitimacy of other non-traditional unions, including common-law marriage.
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Her lawyers have also argued that Carter's due process was violated because Massachusetts's common law of involuntary manslaughter was "arbitrarily" enforced to criminalize her words.
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It was there that she met St. Clair Bayfield in 1909, a British stage actor who became her common-law husband and ultimately, her manager.
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It stipulates that former presidents and their aides will not be liable for arrest for common law violations committed in the exercise of presidential functions.
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When he opened the legal year, Chief Justice Ma didn't directly address fears of pressures from Beijing but repeatedly stressed the importance of common law.
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If the FTC were defanged according to its critics' tendentious reading of law and history, the agency could bring common law consumer fraud cases only.
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Today, both the First Amendment and the common law of defamation take the firm position that group libel is never subject to suit in court.
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"You can prosecute under an old common law called 'Outraging Public Decency' but that law is for when someone has outraged the public," says Martin.
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It's likely she raised the common law issue so the marriage would pre-date 2013 by 5 years, thus entitling her to more spousal support.
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But it was a conflicted moment for her as she left behind her common-law partner, Jose Cristobal, 48, who waited soberly beside their tent.
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"It makes clear that both the First Amendment and common law rights of public access apply to settlement-related documents in class actions," she said.
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Under English common law, a group of armed protesters constituted a riot, and some American colonies prohibited public carry specifically because it caused public terror.
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"In due process cases, the Supreme Court has frequently looked not only to this nation's history, but also to English common law," Gorsuch has written.
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But during closing arguments earlier this month, New York Assistant Attorney General Jonathan Zweig said the state was dropping its claims of common law fraud.
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In Britain doctors have a duty under common law to protect a patient's confidentiality, and are released from that duty only with the patient's consent.
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One source said he was known to police for common law crimes, while another said digital analysis of fingerprints had come up with several aliases.
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U.S. Judge Karon O. Bowdre ruled that the public has a "common law right of access to the sealed records relating to Alabama's lethal injection protocol."
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He thought that America had inherited many of Britain's best traditions, such as common law and a ruling class that was committed to running local institutions.
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"Until there is a sufficiently certain disclosure that charges have in fact been filed, the committee's common law and First Amendment claims are premature," she wrote.
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American law is heavily indebted to English common law: Much of what we understand does and does not constitute a crime comes from the Middle Ages.
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British common law stated that a Christian could not be enslaved, and many plantation owners feared that they would lose their slaves if they were Christianized.
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Sean Christopher Urbanski was indicted for common-law murder, which covers first- and second-degree murder, said Angela D. Alsobrooks, state's attorney for Prince George's County.
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Eventually they settled out of court, with the bookstore retaining use of the name but assigning its common-law rights to use the name to Amazon.
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That puts the parliament beyond Hong Kong's top Court of Final Appeal, a body that includes leading jurists from Britain, Australia and other common law jurisdictions.
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From the mid-16th Century onward, England, our common law forbearers, barred entry to the French, then to Catholics, then to proponents of the French Revolution.
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Since the era of the common law, courts have held that manufacturers are not be liable for injuries arising from the clear misuse of their products.
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Finally, although "unfair" and "deceptive" trade practices have been regulated and defined by the courts for centuries, there is no common law tradition about "abusive" practices.
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The companies said the lawsuit attempted to civilly enforce a federal statute, the Controlled Substances Act, under the guise of the tribe's statutory and common law.
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" Three quotes to sum up his message… "Our real friends in the world speak English, have common law, and stand by us in times of crisis.
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"The legal system in Hong Kong is the common law system," Geoffrey Ma, the chief justice of the Court of Final Appeal, said in a Jan.
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"Their stance is the classic tension between canon law, and their sense that there is some sort of higher, transcendent entity, and common law," Singleton said.
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In other jurisdictions, common law negligence applies, so advisors in other states may still be required to report suspicious financial activity they witness among their older clients.
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Judges would be at liberty, though not obliged, to consider principles from the Human Rights Act to be part of common law even if it were repealed.
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Until 2012, the FBI's definition of rape had remained unchanged since 1927, and bore a striking resemblance to the definition of rape in medieval English common law.
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In June 2017, actress Olivia de Havilland sued Ryan Murphy's show Feud with claims of infringement of common law right of publicity, false light, and unjust enrichment.
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Sometime in the mid-1980s, before his arrest in 2002 for killing his common law wife, Eunsoon Jun, Evans changed his name to Curtis Kimball, Foster said.
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The new wave of cases relies on the nuisance doctrine at the state level, working from the theory that state common law has not been similarly displaced.
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" It reads, "Marriages, whether created by common law, contracted, or performed outside of North Carolina, between individuals of the same gender are not valid in North Carolina.
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Strikes and demonstrations over the erosion of English-style common law and the dominance of Francophone officials have since mutated into what looks like a civil war.
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On the other side of the ledger, the upheaval proved, in the long run, to be the making of the English language, the common law and cricket.
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India also has a common-law-based legal system, but Bhutan pulls from different traditions, so once they return, lawyers have to take a yearlong conversion course.
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In her affidavit, Goodall said there is ample proof that chimpanzees "have well-defined duties and responsibilities," and that "common law personhood" should be afforded to them.
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She was charged with common law robbery and two counts of assault on a government official, according to records posted on the Mecklenburg County Sheriff's Office website.
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But China in November formally extended the law to the freewheeling financial hub, forcing the government to pass new legislation under its separate common law legal system.
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Indeed, some common law based privileges like the deliberative process privilege (as opposed to the constitutionally-based executive privilege) have been raised to seek advice before answering.
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On Tuesday, the officer was indicted by a grand jury on charges of tampering with or fabricating physical evidence, a misdemeanor, and common law misconduct in office.
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In contrast to public nuisance, private nuisance under state common law requires an unreasonable interference with a private person's use and enjoyment of his/her/their property.
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To McManamon, the precedent the Founding Fathers used wasn't British law as of 1787, but the English common law tradition (law made by courts rather than legislation).
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It'll be interesting to see if the prime minister actually follows through with recognizing same-sex, common law marriages or manages to abolish the eight per thousand tax.
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Some offenders have been charged using an old common law called 'Outraging Public Decency', under which you can be prosecuted for public urination, or having sex in public.
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Likewise, Westminster parliamentarianism and Britain's common-law legal system run on common-sense specificity and abstract principle, not the codified layers between the two that define the mainland.
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Most states are common law states, which means if one partner's name is on the deed for the house, for example, that partner alone keeps ownership of it.
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To understand the term "natural born citizen" as written by the framers of the Constitution, they pointed to British common law and legislative action by the First Congress.
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Focusing on outcomes was critical, since Britain has a history of common law and preference for broad principles, while the EU has moved to harmonised rules, Bailey said.
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I think of Justice Kagan as a little bit like my old boss Justice Stevens—a common-law judge who takes each case as it comes to her.
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The fear is that this will inject a degree of arbitrariness into a system that is based on rules underpinned by centuries of precedent under British common law.
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The ruling came down Tuesday in L.A. Superior Court where a judge sided with Margo and declared the couple was in a common-law marriage under Texas law.
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The board majority concluded that the reinstated standard adheres to the common law and is supported by the NLRA's policy of promoting stability and predictability in bargaining relationships.
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When I was in law school, I took a great class called the "History of the Common Law," and it's all about the foundations of our legal system.
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But Pennsylvania, which the couple visited in 1991 to buy their dog Bingo — a symbol of their commitment — did recognize common law marriages until 2005, the suit argues.
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Now, here's what's interesting -- in the docs Margo says she and Ron had a common law marriage in Texas since 2008 ... long before they officially tied the knot.
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"As evident for more than two decades, we have practiced a de facto moratorium on the execution of death penalty for cases under the common law," he added.
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In 1961, the territories then unified into one republic made up mostly of French speakers as well as an English-speaking minority that adhered to British common law.
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But no one would argue that, because English common law remains a feature of American jurisprudence, it therefore follows that British monarchy forms the basis of American society.
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The biggest legacy is Hong Kong's embrace of the British principle of common law, in which judges build upon the precedent of earlier court cases when making rulings.
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"California Common Law" (2018) includes a convex mirror in the corner — a homage to Jan van Eyck's "Arnolfini Wedding" (1434), which famously played tricks with mirrors and windows.
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"There is a whole constitutional common law — the rules of the road — and it is vital," said Harry Litman, a former U.S. attorney and deputy assistant attorney general.
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Friedrich Engels, the father of Communism and wealthy friend of Karl Marx, appears to some disadvantage in this incisive novel narrated by Lizzie Burns, his common-law wife.
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A lower-court judge had allowed Schneiderman to proceed only on a type of fraud known as common-law fraud, which would have been more difficult to prove.
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If he is elected to the Senate, Mr. Moore will have gotten there as a rare retail politician with a penchant for reciting Blackstone's Commentaries on common law.
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The perpetrator was her estranged common-law husband, who was stalking her since reentering the U.S. illegally after being previously deported for sexually assaulting a child, say authorities.
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In February 1972, in the midst of a blizzard, the jazz trumpeter Lee Morgan died after being shot in a Manhattan nightclub by his common-law wife, Helen.
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My aunt, by then, was married, having just officially tied the knot in Las Vegas on a whim after a common-law marriage that spanned nearly two decades.
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For contracts, it is primarily the "common law" which governs contracts, that is, law derived from judicial decisions and not government-enacted statutes (historical background courtesy of UC Berkeley).
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COMMON law has long held that committing a crime requires both a prohibited act and a "mens rea", or "guilty mind"—the criminal knowing that the act was wrong.
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The official misconduct charge is a Maryland common law offense, which means the court is free to impose any penalty that is not seen as cruel and unusual punishment.
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Terror offenses in France are dealt with much more severely than common law crimes, although the sentences handed to minors are half as heavy as those imposed on adults.
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Britain's time zone, between New York and Asia, and common-law system are powerful advantages—as are a willingness to experiment, global approach, cultural allure and deep hiring pool.
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BAGEHOT: To what extent do you think this is about an incompatibility between the liberal, common law, British form of government and what is basically a Christian Democratic project?
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Under the common law "born-alive rule," one could not be subject to criminal or civil liability based on actions that affected a fetus, unless it was born alive.
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The ruling did not in fact "fully secure" the "principle that truth cannot be libel" — that principle has been part of American common law for well over a century.
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Under both federal law and common law, charitable nonprofits, houses of worship, and foundations have an obligation not to use any resources of any kind to influence partisan elections.
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Other Israelis get a friend to marry them, or they sign a civil union agreement with a lawyer, or they register as common law spouses or simply live together.
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The term "high crimes and misdemeanors" came out of the British common law tradition: it was the sort of offense that Parliament cited in removing crown officials for centuries.
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Crimes derived from the "common law" — the body of law developed from judicial opinions and legal treatises rather than statutes — have been a staple of American law for centuries.
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Though there is a suggestion in one episode that Pap feeds the flesh of his common-law wife to an unsuspecting bootlegger, he himself does not indulge in cannibalism.
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" "More specifically: it would mean the death of 'separation of powers' in Hong Kong, a doctrine fundamental to the common law rule of law -- and one Beijing comprehensively rejects.
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The suit states that Kardashian West is suing for copyright infringement, infringement of registered mark, false association, violation of the right of publicity and California common law trademark infringement.
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Misprision of felony is a circa-1789 crime, which the first Congress borrowed from old English common law and which is not favored among many contemporary criminal law practitioners.
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Blackmore wed 24 women in so-called "celestial" marriages since 1975, according to Canada's Global News, and his attorney had argued the relationships were common-law marriages without legal recognition.
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And some of the convention rights, such as the right not to be tortured, have become more firmly rooted in English common law (which is based on precedent, not statute).
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For Waterlooists, England's unique achievement was to limit the power of the over-mighty state through constitutional reforms such as Magna Carta, the establishment of Parliament and the common law.
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The lawsuit said the pipeline is a common law public nuisance and violates the Michigan Environmental Protection Act because it is likely to pollute water and hurt other natural resources.
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In a unanimous 2011 decision, the Supreme Court said that the Clean Air Act displaced the federal common law of nuisance, leaving enforcement and regulation to the Environmental Protection Agency.
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Belize follows English Common law, making the procedures and protections for buyers similar to those in the U.K. or the U.S. "It's a very simple closing process," Ms. McCann said.
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"You can sue under a common law tort in Ontario, but the question becomes what the defence will be—consent or ownership," said Michael Power, a Toronto-based privacy lawyer.
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The Supreme Court has repeatedly stated that the Framers intended to incorporate limitations on the pardon power that existed in British law, or common law, when the Constitution was drafted.
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It is a long-standing canon of our common law system that there is a presumption in favor of requiring criminal intent, even when the statute doesn't explicitly require it.
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But in a scathing decision, Justice Catherine Bruce of the Supreme Court of British Columbia found that the Mounties had instigated the terrorist plot and manipulated the common-law couple.
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Some noted that local courts, which operate on common law, could still soften or even stymie the implementation of Beijing's decision to block two pro-independence politicians from taking office.
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This was of ancient vintage even at the time that the Constitution was drafted — it has biblical antecedents and pervades the British common law that underlay what became U.S. law.
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I'm quoting the history of the [British] common law upon which our Constitution is based ... The court did not say that sodomy or homosexuality had any kind of public right.
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The cities had relied on the area of public nuisance under state common law, which allows courts to hold parties responsible for actions that interfere with the use of property.
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Most states espouse a common-law understanding of public nuisance that is much narrower than the relevant statute in Oklahoma, notes Richard Ausness of the University of Kentucky Law School.
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In 2011, the Supreme Court rejected a nuisance suit from six states invoking federal common law that had sought to force major electric utilities to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions.
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Under the Basic Law, which enshrines Hong Kong's separate system until 2047, Hong Kong is allowed to continue a British-style legal system that remains part of the common law.
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After independence in the early 1960s, the nation unified into one republic made up mostly of French speakers and a minority who speak English and adhere to British common law.
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It comes from English common law that refers to offenses against the crown, from whence our founders borrowed much of our law, but they formed our government structure quite differently.
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Bulger was accused of strangling Debra Davis, the 26-year-old girlfriend of his partner, Stephen "The Rifleman" Flemmi, and Deborah Hussey, also 26, the daughter of Flemmi's common-law wife.
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"The city's claims are ultimately based on the 'transboundary' emission of greenhouse gases, indicating that these claims arise under federal common law and require a uniform standard of decision," he wrote.
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Chapo's recognized common-law wife, a former small town beauty queen called Emma Coronel, has also talked to the media about her meetings with Guzmán while he was on the run.
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Filed on Monday in state court in Los Angeles County, the lawsuit accuses SoCalGas and its parent Sempra Energy of negligence, fraudulent concealment and nearly a dozen related common law violations.
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Johnson brings this lawsuit against Defendant Trump for that humiliating violation, which amounts to common law battery, and seeks assistance from the Court to put a stop to his predatory conduct.
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This approach changed with the British, who imposed a centralized system, and the common law principle in the late 1800s, emphasizing the rights of landowners to access water, according to Kulkarni.
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Potential charges, according to New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, include securities fraud, common law fraud, and violations of racketeering, consumer protection, truth in advertising, public health, and shareholder protection laws.
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The health of the system, which remains part of the British-based common law tradition, is widely seen as vital to the city's role and reputation as an international financial hub.
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But they're wrong, according to Bowie, who argues in the New York Times that abuse of power and obstruction of Congress are common law crimes not specifically written out in statute.
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" The officer who wrote the citations testified that Steward told her that she was "not able to give him a lawful order because I was not an agent of common law.
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"Burglary is descended from the common law, and its rationale is precisely because of the risk that the burglar will encounter someone in the course of committing the burglary," he said.
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The man was not on the watch list of French intelligence services, but was known to police in connection with common law crimes such as theft and violence, the source said.
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In the 1970s, we fought for legal equality and eradication of the laws, based on English common law, that put women in the same legal category as children and insane persons.
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Michigan law allows for the prosecution of public officials for "misconduct in office" under a statute that permits charges based on common law crimes that are not otherwise included in any statute.
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Justice Valihura said in her dissent that the majority is relying on implication in the statutory language to allow a shareholder to be deprived of longstanding rights under Delaware and common law.
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The US government has underlined the high priority it still gives to veteran drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero by including his common-law wife among alleged traffickers listed within the Kingpin Act.
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State Supreme Court Justice Donald Greenwood praised the son for doing his legal research and citing a "common law requirement" that required family members to give a six-month notice before eviction.
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The guideline change came into effect on July 1, and will grant marriage benefits to employees with same-sex and common-law marriages, according to a press release picked up by SoraNews24.
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In this latest battle, Amazon claims the sites are in violation of various laws and acts, including the Lanham Act, Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act, Washington Consumer Protection Act, and Washington Common Law.
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Under common law, involuntary manslaughter generally requires that (1) the defendant intended to commit an act, (2) the intended act was wanton or reckless, and (3) the act caused the victim's death.
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A synopsis of the report did not flag up any reasons why extending the right to medically-assisted reproduction to all women would contravene the constitution or common law, the newspaper said.
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Or, secondly, classic common law tort cases, such as nuisance and trespass suits, which are made more difficult by the right-to-farm laws that have been passed in almost every state.
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And, like Hong Kong's separate legal traditions that are based on common law, they are detailed in a mini-constitution known as the Basic Law under a "one country, two systems" formula.
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The district attorneys for Middlesex and Suffolk counties sued ICE earlier this year, alleging that a directive authorizing the civil arrests of undocumented immigrants at courthouses violates long-standing common-law privilege.
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The 17th century "Hale Warning" established the idea in English common law, and later in the American legal system, that rape is rare, and that vindictive women too easily bring such charges.
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Moreover, he should underscore that the EU is an institution that runs on lines at odds with the traditions of representative democracy and common law that the U.S. and U.K. both share.
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Privacy International is arguing that the IPT's decision to sanction thematic warrants "fundamentally undermines 250 years of English common law", as well as also failing to comply with international human rights law.
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While most are common-law property states — whoever acquired it during the marriage owns it — some have community-property laws that treat assets acquired during the marriage as equally owned by both.
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"If they start co-mingling funds and sharing assets, then the court can regard them as being in a common law domestic partnership, and can disregard the co-ownership agreement," she said.
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In a unanimous 2011 decision, the Supreme Court said that the Clean Air Act displaced the federal common law of nuisance and gave jurisdiction over the issues to the Environmental Protection Agency.
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"We see no reason to conclude that District common law recognizes anything like Cork's unfair-competition claim," Judge Thomas Griffith wrote in an opinion joined by Judges Merrick Garland and Stephen Williams.
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Pauline is unimpressed with the photographer but establishes an immediate rapport with his unhappy common-law wife, Suzanne (Thérèse Liotard), who is the mother of two children and pregnant with a third.
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Our practice of common law, together with an independent judiciary served by high-caliber judges, has earned us the trust and the confidence of friends and trading partners all over the world.
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Every Tuesday and Friday for six weeks, Holmes developed the idea that the common law had evolved not according to any internal reason but according to the felt imperatives of the day.
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You don't need to register to use a name, or to hold rights to it: There are various common-law and state-law trademark rights that exist outside the federal registration system.
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Instead, the group points to statutes in common law and some US state laws that allow bystanders to trespass to stop animal cruelty or help an animal in a life-threatening situation.
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