common law
ENFdroit commun WCommon law
- La common law (« droit commun »), du moyen anglais commune laue (laue venant de l'ancien anglais lagu « droit »), correspondant à l'anglo-normand « commune ley »,
- C'est une conception, d'origine anglaise, qui marque la prééminence des décisions des tribunaux, la jurisprudence.
- Dans les pays de tradition romaine, où l'on parle de droit romano-germanique, c'est le principe législatif qui domine, organisé sous forme de codes, à l'exemple du Code civil suisse.
- L'expression common law est difficilement traduisible en français, bien que l'origine de ce mot provienne d'une expression franco-normande « commune ley » signifiant « loi commune ».
- NomPREcom-
- (law) Law developed by judges through court decisions and opinions (also called case law), as distinct from legislative statutes and regulations promulgated by the executive branch.
- (law, historical) Body of law administered in certain courts (known as law courts) in England and its former colonies characterized by a rigid writ system with a limited set of remedies (as opposed to equity or admiralty).
- (law) Legal system mainly in England and its former colonies with a heavy emphasis on judge-made law, doctrines deduced by casuistry rather than from general principles, and unwritten law rather than codification.
- (law, Scots law, Roman-Dutch law) Law of general application throughout a country, province, or state as opposed to law having only a special or local application.
- (law) Law developed by judges through court decisions and opinions (also called case law), as distinct from legislative statutes and regulations promulgated by the executive branch.
Definition of common law in English Dictionary
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- Singularia tantum
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Other Vocabulary
- en common-law
- en common man
- en common rat
- en common land
- en commonplace
Source: Wiktionnaire
Grammaticalement, ce idiome "common law" est un nom, plus spécifiquement, un singularia tantum.