Zitat des Tages über Common Law:
Our lady the Common Law is a very wise old lady though she still has something to learn in telling what she knows.
Under the common law, one of the more controversial rules is the 'no duty to rescue rule' that says that, if you were not responsible for placing someone in danger or risk, you have no obligation to help them, even when it would cost little to save their life.
Christianity is part of the common law.
It cannot be assumed that equity was following common law whenever they agreed, any more than the converse.
Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason - the law which is perfection of reason.
The right to marry is vital in society. It's a right that's older than the Bill of Rights because it goes back to the common law.
And of course we are familiar with the English common law rule of thumb that said a man could in fact use a stick no bigger than his thumb to discipline his wife and family.
Christianity is part of the Common Law of England.
'Pnin' by Vladimir Nabokov, which is a literally small book, fit right in my common law book. I would sit in class and read it.
