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Common law refers to law developed through decisions of courts and similar tribunals (called case law), rather than through legislative statutes or executive action, and to corresponding legal systems that rely on precedential case law. Common law is law created and refined by judges: a decision in a currently pending legal case depends on decisions in previous cases and affects the law to be applied in future cases. When there is no authoritative statement of the law, judges have the authority and duty to make law by creating precedent. The body of precedent is called "common law" and it binds future decisions. In future cases, when parties disagree on what the law is, an idealized common law court looks to past precedential decisions of relevant courts. If a similar dispute has been resolved in the past, the court is bound to follow the reasoning used in the prior decision (this principle is known as stare decisis). If, however, the court finds that the current dispute is fundamentally distinct from all previous cases, it will decide as a "matter of first impression". Thereafter, the new decision becomes precedent, and will bind future courts under the principle of stare decisis. In practice, common law systems are considerably more complicated than the idealized system described above. The decisions of a court are binding only in a particular jurisdiction, and even within a given jurisdiction, some courts have more power than others. For example, in most jurisdictions, decisions by appellate courts are binding on lower courts in the same jurisdiction and on future decisions of the same appellate court, but decisions of lower courts are only non-binding persuasive authority. Interactions between common law, constitutional law, statutory law and regulatory law also give rise to considerable complexity. However stare decisis, the principle that similar cases should be decided according to consistent principled rules so that they will reach similar results, lies at the heart of all common law systems. Common law legal systems are in widespread use, particularly in England where it originated in the Middle Ages., and in those nations which trace their legal heritage to England, as former colonies of the British Empire including the United States, Singapore, Pakistan, India, Ghana, Cameroon, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, Australia and Hong Kong. From Wikipedia under the
GNU Free Documentation License how does common law marriage affect separate obligations of the parties? Q. For instance-if one party has a judgment against them for $50,000 for an auto accident and the parties move from a state where common law marriage is not recognized to one where common law marriage is recognized-how and when (if at all) will the second party become liable for the liabilities or obligations of the first? Asked by daili151 - Thu Feb 5 19:36:14 2009 - - 5 Answers - 0 Comments A. Go 2 Judge Judy Answered by The Fat Man - Thu Feb 5 19:50:35 2009 what is the difference between a state-registered trademark and a common law trademark? Q. I have the sense that state trademarks are those which are not federally registered )due to lack of use outside of one state most likely) but are registered with the state's secretary of state's office. Common law trademarks seem to be those which are not registered anywhere but gain protection through use. Do I have this right? Asked by stapp101 - Tue Jul 28 09:53:37 2009 - - 3 Answers - 0 Comments Can a person file another person in a common law marriage?
Q. If my grandma was being filed on my mother taxes for about 30 years but my grandma's common law husband said he wants to file her can he do it? Asked by chrisandersontitus - Mon Mar 27 22:34:19 2006 - - 4 Answers - 0 Comments A. whoever she lived with or paid for her care and support gets to do it. Answered by webjnke1 - Mon Mar 27 22:36:29 2006 From Yahoo Answer Search: "Common Law"
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