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common law   (TTS Sound)

The noun common law has 2 senses

• case law, precedent, common law -- ((civil law) a law established by following earlier judicial decisions)


• common law, case law, precedent -- (a system of jurisprudence based on judicial precedents rather than statutory laws; "common law originated in the unwritten laws of England and was later applied in the United States")

The adj common-law has 1 sense

• common-law -- (based on common law; "a common-law right")