Synonyms for case law
case law

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1. case lawnoun

   Synonyms:
   common law, decisional law, precedential law

2. case lawnoun

   Law or system of laws established based on judicial precedent rather than on statutory laws created by legislation.

   Synonyms:
   decisional law, common law, precedential law

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1. common law, case law, precedentnoun

   a system of jurisprudence based on judicial precedents rather than statutory laws

   "common law originated in the unwritten laws of England and was later applied in the United States"

   Synonyms:
   case in point, precedent, common law

2. case law, precedent, common lawnoun

   (civil law) a law established by following earlier judicial decisions

   Synonyms:
   case in point, precedent, common law

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1. Robert Stahl:

   Multiply the amount of time spent meeting with the client to obtain the facts, the hours reviewing documents and case law, and meeting with the government, and you can see how legal bills quickly escalate.

2. Sarah Schultz:

   So there's no case law from the last downturn.

3. Kermit Victor Lipez:

   The First Amendment issue here is, as the parties frame it, fairly narrow: is there a constitutionally protected right to videotape police carrying out their duties in public? Basic First Amendment principles, along with case law from this and other circuits, answer that question unambiguously in the affirmative.

4. Anne Joseph O'Connell:

   The case law as to what qualifies as a legislative rule is remarkably unclear.

5. Carissima Mathen:

   The charter provides a framework for argument, it provides a benchmark and now, 30 years on, it provides a whole body of case law such that if the court wanted to go in a radically different direction, it would have to explain itself.