How to Use common law in a Sentence

common law

noun

• This comes from the common law and from a type of model law called the Uniform Trust Code.
  — Dallas News, 20 Sep. 2020
• No one has done more to help us to keep our faith in the living force and beauty of the common law.
  — Travis Andersen, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Mar. 2018
• These are common law claims that state courts are used to hearing.
  — Aurora Almendral, Quartz, 26 Apr. 2023
• The Restatements are, in essence, guidebooks to the common law.
  — Ian MacDougall, ProPublica, 20 May 2019
• The case centered on two common laws that can be used to sue the lovers of unfaithful spouses.
  — Bruce Henderson, charlotteobserver, 6 Sep. 2017
• Donovan Davis, 25, has been charged with three counts of common law robbery.
  — Jane Wester, charlotteobserver, 18 Jan. 2018
• Texas is one of eight states that allow common law marriages.
  — Patrick Danner, ExpressNews.com, 3 Sep. 2020
• Indeed, they are found almost nowhere else in either statutes or the common law.
  — Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 21 June 2021
• This is three times as many as any other common law nation.
  — WSJ, 1 Oct. 2017
• The wisdom of the common law, which made it a crime to go armed to the terror of the people, inures to our benefit today.
  — Olivia Li, Slate Magazine, 17 Oct. 2017
• The more than 30 others must remain in jail, the judge said, a departure from the right to bail under Hong Kong’s common law courts.
  — Washington Post, 4 Mar. 2021
• Each of the thousands of common law rules that exist today once did not exist.
  — Daniella Silva, NBC News, 28 Dec. 2017
• In the other, common law states, a spouse usually has a right to claim one third to one half of the estate, regardless of what a will says.
  — Nerd Wallet, oregonlive, 8 Nov. 2021
• But no sort of amnesty was offered to common law prisoners.
  — John Hopewell, Variety, 3 June 2022
• The grand jury process, meanwhile, was adopted from British common law.
  — Maya Wiley, The New Republic, 4 Apr. 2023
• Sedition in the early years of the United States English common law made sedition a crime, in writing or speech.
  — Dallas News, 13 Jan. 2022
• Khater and Tanios are named as defendants for one claim of common law assault, the filing states.
  — Clarence Williams, Washington Post, 6 Jan. 2023
• Americans found the answer to this problem in common law.
  — Barry C. Lynn, Harper's Magazine, 18 Aug. 2020
• On April 13, 16-year-old Jordan Fry and two younger teenagers who weren't identified were charged with common law robbery.
  — Jane Wester, charlotteobserver, 23 Apr. 2018
• Surely there is such case law in the form of the common law of joint and several liability.
  — Michael I. Krauss, Forbes, 18 May 2022
• Every state has some form of citizen’s arrest law, either on the books or common law.
  — Roy S. Johnson | [e-mail], al, 18 May 2020
• So Alfie’s parents had their rights removed in a nation that once gave the world the Magna Carta, and the miracle of English common law.
  — John Kass, chicagotribune.com, 27 Apr. 2018
• There, [Kennedy] described 1000 years of evolution of rule of law and of the Anglo-American common law system.
  — The Washington Post, AL.com, 13 Feb. 2018
• When Hong Kong was handed over from British to Chinese rule in 1997, the city's common law system remained largely intact.
  — James Griffiths, CNN, 22 June 2020
• The Irish government, meanwhile, is pitching Dublin to firms who prefer common law to French civil law.
  — Washington Post, 18 Sep. 2019
• To attract business and workers, the city has a tax-free zone that uses common law for corporate dealings.
  — Frank Holmes, Forbes, 19 Oct. 2021
• Since the handover, Hong Kong has maintained the common law system inherited from British rule.
  — Kathleen Magramo, CNN, 29 Nov. 2022
• Ronnie Stevens and his common law wife Tina Ephrem face a six-count federal fraud indictment.
  — oregonlive.com, 10 July 2019
• Four of the men — ages 30 to 51 — were charged with assault occasioning bodily harm, cruelty to child and assault at common law.
  — Tyler Kingkade, NBC News, 9 Apr. 2024
• Most unnervingly, under the common law doctrine of coverture, a married woman’s identity was subsumed by her husband’s.
  — Katherine Hobbs, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 25 Oct 2024