Professor John Makdisi's The Islamic Origins of the Common Law in the North Carolina Law Review , curiously suggested that English common law was inspired by medieval Islamic law.

An appeal to God's judgment cannot be denied by common or canon law.

The author has been battered by this same man, her former common law husband.

Northern Ireland is a common law jurisdiction and its common law is similar to that in England and Wales.

This cooperation was facılıtated by common approaches to competition law and policy among cooperating countries.

A) Pakistan is a common law jurisdiction.

But this Hindu tradition, along with Islamic law, was supplanted by the common law when India became part of the British Empire.

The current wording represented a compromise between civil law and common law approaches that had been agreed upon by the Working Group.

Common sense, a rare idea in the law, but here it was. Common sense (Laughter)

Common sense, a rare idea in the law, but here it was. Common sense Revolts at the idea. Common sense.

For example, murder is a common law crime rather than one established by an Act of Parliament.

Its status is different from that under common law.

Only recently had women started to report assaults committed against them by their spouses or common law partners.

The Jerusalem Law (, ) is a common name of Basic Law Jerusalem, Capital of Israel passed by the Knesset on July 30, 1980 (17th Av, 5740).

Historically, Barbadian law was based entirely on English common law with a few local adaptations.

Member of the Society for the Reform of the Criminal Law in Common Law Countries.

Common law does not impose any form requirement on signatures.

26. In common with the rest of international law, international humanitarian law has been slow in recognizing that the environment requires protection by a set of rules of law specific to it.

The phrase quot global commons quot was known in common law the term quot common heritage of mankind quot was its equivalent in the civil law regime.

Author of several landmark judgments in civil and criminal cases, aimed at development of a Uganda Common Law Tradition by adaptation of the English Common Law to take account of the diverse and largely unwritten cultural and social mores of the Ugandan people administered as Customary Law.

The law of the British Virgin Islands is the common law of England and locally enacted legislation.

Mrs Myburgh relied on a common law rule for her defence.

57. As in other common law countries, trial by jury is a fundamental element of Australia apos s legal system.

No, we start by looking for common threats because common threats make common ground.

This Act broadens applicable law to benefit and streamline inheritance rights of spouses under common and customary law.

In addition, UNIDIR is currently publishing a book entitled Common Security in Outer Space and International Law, by Dr. Detlev Wolter.

Property acquired by spouses during their marriage is their common property (art. 32 of the law on marriage and the family).

However, today there are signs that civil and common law are converging.

In both common law and civil law legal traditions, the notion of signature does not include a reliability test.

This might bring the international law of trust a step closer to domestic trusts as known under common law.

The principle... of criminal law in every civilized society... has this in common

But these institutions reflect the political power of social forces, not the differences between civil law and common law systems.

Therefore, with regard to these enterprises, the common provisions of the civil law and the international law will be applied.

This includes the granting of group rights, under which Muslims are governed by their own Personal Law, distinct from the common civil code.

Pending the completion of the lengthy formalities for enacting proposed revisions, were common law exceptions being granted by the Director of Public Prosecutions?

Ireland with its common law tradition differed from countries with a civil law tradition precisely in having very specific individual statutes.

(g) New model laws to combat money laundering and financing of terrorism for both civil law and common law jurisdictions produced

10. The law of the British Virgin Islands is the common law of the United Kingdom, together with locally enacted legislation.

But conspiracy, as a stand alone offense, is particular to Anglo American common law.

At common law, damages are categorized into compensatory (or actual) damages, and punitive damages.

The Norwegian civil procedure allows different parties to join in a common law suit.

How many disagree with the utilitarian approach to law and to the common good?

On June 30, 2004, Manitoba's family property regime was extended to common law partners, both same and opposite sex (The Common Law Partners' Property and Related Amendments Act, http web2.gov.mb.ca laws statutes 2002 c04802e.php).

He argues, however, that in other common law countries, the law of constructive malice has been abolished, and that under the current common law system it does not suffice to establish murder if the killing was caused inadvertently, as in the author apos s case.

Moreover, unlike common law, which provided only a limited number of defences for persons accused of crimes punishable by death, Islamic law provided for some 85 defences and should be seen in that context.