Definitions for common-law

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common-law com·mon-law

Spelling: [kom-uh n-law]

IPA: /ˈkɒm ənˈlɔ/

Common-Law is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 198 anagrams from letters in common-law (-aclmmnoow).

Definitions for common-law

noun

1. the system of law originating in England, as distinct from the civil or Roman law and the canon or ecclesiastical law.
2. the unwritten law, especially of England, based on custom or court decision, as distinct from statute law.
3. the law administered through the system of courts established for the purpose, as distinct from equity or admiralty.

adjective

1. of, relating to, or established by common law:

Origin of common-law

First recorded in 1905-10

Examples for common-law

Now, you understand, gentlemen, that there is no common-law jurisdiction of offences residing in the United States Courts.

I took up with him at once the matter of Zoe's common-law marriage.

"That idea of a common-law marriage was clever," Groll said musing.

common-law partnership makes the couple, and not the government or religious institution, the authority in family life.

common-law partnerships have their own independent authority and validity.

Let me ask, Can the city by any means legalize a common-law misdemeanor?

Less canonically, “natural marriage” is also at times used as a rough synonym for “common-law marriage.”

Single-parent, same-sex, and common-law families barely penetrated public consciousness, much less the Hebrew lexicon.

I am a common-law barrister, and am rising in my profession.

common-law partnership offers privacy and autonomy in a world of increasing intrusion and regulation.