💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Case law"
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| Word | Definition |
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| 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). |
| precedentnoun | An act in the past which may be used as an example to help decide the outcome of similar instances in the future. |
| case reportnoun | (medicine) A detailed report of the symptoms, signs, diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up of an individual patient, possibly containing a demographic profile of the patient, but usually describing an unusual or novel occurrence. |
| case citationnoun | (law) A combination of numbers and abbreviations used in common law countries to identify an opinion of a court, including the names of the parties, case reporter, name of the court, and year of the decision, and sometimes the page of the opinion that is cited. |
| case notenoun | (chiefly in the plural) A note about a case by a doctor, lawyer, therapist, or similar professional. |
| casenoun | An actual event, situation, or fact. |
| case reporternoun | (law) A bound volume containing printed legal opinions from a specific jurisdiction. |
| court casenoun | (law) a legal case to be resolved in a court |
| statute lawnoun | (law, uncountable) The completecorpus of laws enacted by legislation and currently in effect within a jurisdiction, as opposed to regulations or case law. |
| judge-made lawnoun | Synonym of common law. |
| lawcodenoun | (law) A body of law that is sanctioned by legislation. |
| decisional lawnoun | Synonym of common law. |
| rule of decisionnoun | (law) A legal authority (e.g., a statute or judicial precedent) that governs the resolution of a particular case. |
| leading casenoun | (chiefly UK, Australia, Canada, Commonwealth, law) A reported decision which has come to be regarded as settling the law of the question involved. |
| statutenoun | A written law or ordinance passed by a legislative body. |
| procedural lawnoun | (law) The law that comprises the rule by which a court hears and determines what happens in civil or criminal proceedings. |
| test casenoun | (computing) Any of a set of conditions and variables used to test an application. |
| book lawnoun | (law, dated) Written law, statute law. |
| question of lawnoun | (law) An issue to be decided by the judge, concerning the application or interpretation of the law. |
| court of lawnoun | A court presided over by a judge which is empowered to decide all aspects of legal disputes. |
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