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black-letter lawnoun(law) The law as a set of specific concrete rules set down by longstanding precedents.
common lawnoun(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 law distributed among judicial decisions rather than codified statutes (as opposed to civil law).
outbranchnounA branch of a tree, bush, or shrub that extends outward; offshoot.
codenoun(programming, uncountable) Instructions for a computer, written in a programming language; the input of a translator, an interpreter or a browser, namely: source code, machine code, bytecode.
coram nobisnoun(law) A kind of legal order allowing a court to correct its original judgment upon discovery of a fundamental error which did not appear in the records of the original judgment's proceedings and would have prevented the judgment from being pronounced.
correus debendinoun(law) A person jointly liable for a debt with another or others; a correal debtor; a codebtor.
precedential lawnounSynonym of common law.
lawcodenoun(law) A body of law that is sanctioned by legislation.
squibnoun(military) A small firework that is intended to spew sparks rather than explode.
briefOf short duration; happening quickly.
courtnounAn enclosed space; a courtyard; an uncovered area shut in by the walls of a building, or by different buildings; also, a space opening from a street and nearly surrounded by houses; a blind alley.
rule of lawnoun(law, often capitalized) The doctrine that no individual is above the law and that everyone must answer to it.
legitimnoun(law) Common in Continental Law jurisdictions, a portion of property fixed by law, which a testator with issue is bound to bequeath to his children.
lawbooknounA book in which laws are codified.
law calfnounSynonym of law binding.
principle of legalitynounThe principle that the courts should not interpret any statute as curtailing or abrogating a common law right, freedom, or principle, unless the legislative body that made that statute clearly communicated the intention to impose such a restriction.
banknoun(countable) An institution where one can place and borrow money and take care of financial affairs.
lex latanoun(law) The law as it is.
caveatnounA warning.
procedural lawnoun(law) The law that comprises the rule by which a court hears and determines what happens in civil or criminal proceedings.

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