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COMMON LAW JURISDICTION [2 records]

Record 1 2013-11-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Practice and Procedural Law
  • Courts
DEF

A court's jurisdiction to try such cases as were cognizable under the English common law ...

CONT

In the absence of a controlling statute, the court exercised common-law jurisdiction over those claims.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit judiciaire
  • Tribunaux

Spanish

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Record 2 2013-11-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Legal System
  • Constitutional Law
DEF

A place where the legal system derives fundamentally from the English common-law system.

CONT

A common law lawyer may feel quite confident of finding the applicable law of a particular common law province.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Théorie du droit
  • Droit constitutionnel
CONT

Un avocat de common law sera sans doute bien confiant de pouvoir trouver les règles de droit applicables d’une province de common law donnée.

Spanish

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