English-Portuguese translations for common law

• common law
  A common law, fortemente dominada pelo direito romano, e as tradições jurídicas dos países nórdicos são muito divergentes num conjunto de pontos decisivos. The Roman-dominated common law and the Nordic legal traditions are incredibly different on a range of crucial points.
  Com efeito, e sobretudo, esclareça-se que a noção de documento autêntico não existe nos sistemas de "common law". Indeed, and above all, it should be specified that the concept of the authentic act does not exist in common law systems.

Definition of common law

• Law developed by judges, courts, and agency adjudicatory tribunals, through their decisions and opinions (as opposed to statutes promulgated by legislatures, and regulations promulgated by the executive branch
• Body of law and procedure administered in certain courts in England and its former colonies characterized by a rigid system of writs, with a limited set of remedies (as opposed to equity or admiralty

Synonyms

• case law
• decisional law
• judge-made law
• precedential law

Related words

• common law husband
• common law wife
• common-law marriage