John Adams asserted in the Continental Congress' Declaration of Rights that the demands of the colonies were in accordance with their charters, the British Constitution and the common law, and Jefferson appealed in the Declaration of Independence `` to the tribunal of the world '' for support of a revolution justified by `` the laws of nature and of nature's God ''.

It seemed to me that the liberals had scrapped the balanced polarity and reposed both liberty and the fundamental law in the common man.

Living pictures of the early boroughs, country life in Tudor and Stuart times, the impact of the industrial revolution compete with sensitive surveys of language and literature, the common law, parliamentary development.

To obey the moral law is just ordinary common sense, applied to a neglected field.

The theory of international law, which in the nineteenth century became common to virtually all writers in Europe and America, broke this unity and this universality.

The Lincoln Mills decision authorizes a whole new body of federal `` common law '' which, as Mr. Justice Frankfurter pointed out in dissent, leads to one of the following `` incongruities '': `` ( ( 1 ) conflict in federal and state court interpretations of collective bargaining agreements ; ;

He is a trustee for the common good, however feeble the safeguards which the positive or municipal law of property provides against his misuse of that share of the common fund, wisely or unwisely, entrusted to his keeping.

Eighteenth-century England, upon whose customs our common law was built, had outlawed unions as monopolies and conspiracies.

In Anglo-American common law courts, appellate review of lower court decisions may also be obtained by filing a petition for review by prerogative writ in certain cases.

In the context of patent law and specifically in prior art searches, searching through abstracts is a common way to find relevant prior art document to question to novelty or inventive step ( or non-obviousness in United States patent law ) of an invention.

The term " allocution " is generally only in use in jurisdictions in the United States, though there are vaguely similar processes in other common law countries.

At common law allegiance is a true and faithful obedience of the subject due to his Sovereign.

By ancient common law it might be required of all persons above the age of 12, and it was repeatedly used as a test for the disaffected.

* Abatement of debts and legacies, a common law doctrine of wills

Jurisprudence is based on English common law.

Assault in some US jurisdictions is defined more broadly still as any intentional physical contact with another person without their consent ; but in the majority of the United States, and in England and Wales and all other common law jurisdictions in the world, this is defined instead as battery.

In common law, criminal assault often accompanied battery.

In English law, s58 Children Act 2004, limits the availability of the lawful correction defense to common assault under s39 Criminal Justice Act 1988.

Assault is a common law crime defined as " unlawfully and intentionally applying force to the person of another, or inspiring a belief in that other that force is immediately to be applied to him.

" The common law crime of indecent assault was repealed by the Criminal Law ( Sexual Offences and Related Matters ) Amendment Act, 2007, and replaced by a statutory crime of sexual assault.

English law provides for two offences of assault: common assault and battery.

American common law has defined assault as an attempt to commit a battery.

As a literary game when Latin was the common property of the literate, Latin anagrams were prominent: two examples are the change of " Ave Maria, gratia plena, Dominus tecum " ( Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord with you ) into " Virgo serena, pia, munda et immaculata " ( Serene virgin, pious, clean and spotless ), and the anagrammatic answer to Pilate's question, " Quid est veritas?

Neither Charles Darwin nor anyone else in his time knew the answer to the species problem: how multiple species could evolve from a single common ancestor.

Since the two numbers are equal, we have found the answer: the greatest common divisor of 1989 and 867 must be 51.

In many common law jurisdictions ( e. g. the Republic of Ireland, Canada, Hong Kong, India, Australia, New Zealand ), an indictable offence is an offence which can only be tried on an indictment after a preliminary hearing to determine whether there is a prima facie case to answer or by a grand jury ( in contrast to a summary offence ).

The House of Lords asked the judges of the common law courts to answer five questions on insanity as a criminal defence, and the formulation that emerged from their review — that a defendant should not be held responsible for his actions only if, as a result of his mental disease or defect, he ( i ) did not know that his act would be wrong ; or ( ii ) did not understand the nature and quality of his actions — became the basis of the law governing legal responsibility in cases of insanity in England.

In common law systems that rely on testimony by witnesses, a leading question or suggestive interrogation is a question that suggests the particular answer or contains the information the examiner is looking to have confirmed.

A common way out of this argument is not to answer the question ( e. g. with a simple ' yes ' or ' no '), but to challenge the assumption behind the question.

Their answer was that a " natural law " instilled in all beings a common sense.

The common answer involves gravity leaking into the extra dimensions in ways that the other forces do not.

There are may iteration of the answer but the most common by me over the years was that the abbreviations for Superframe ( SF ) was in conflict with the sill commonly used technology of the day, Single Frequency Signaling ( SF Signaling ).

" In the Nights, this didactic framework is the least common way of introducing the story, but instead a story is most commonly introduced through subtle means, particularly as an answer to questions raised in a previous tale.

The conversation still makes sense due to uses of common phrases that can be used as either greetings or farewells (" Good day ") and the positioning of lines which double as an answer to a question in the next line.

# Give the answer as a fraction representing a rational number, so the result of the division of 26 by 11 is But, usually, the resulting fraction should be simplified: the result of the division of 52 by 22 is also This simplification may be done by factoring out the greatest common divisor computed by mean of Euclidean algorithm.

Examples include the decision problem forms of finding the greatest common divisor of two numbers, and determining what answer the extended Euclidean algorithm would return when given two numbers.

It is a common belief among the rave culture that violence is never the answer.

* A common clue is " Compass point ", where the desired answer is one of eight possible abbreviations for a position on a compass, e. g. NNW ( for north-northwest ) or ESE ( for east-southeast ).

( which stands for " Wide Fuckin ' Open ", a common biker term ) was released in September 1994 as an answer to the criticism that I Hear Black had received.

It is very common for points of order to be raised during question time on the issue of relevance, as a Minister answering questions will normally attempt to redirect the answer to an attack on their opponents.

A common gag had Archie always mispronouncing his minister's name as the " Reverend Fletcher " and being corrected, " Feltcher ," to which Archie's answer would invariably be " whatever.

Lip-service was paid to the concept in order to have an answer to those predicting such systems would become common.

However, in most common law jurisdictions, the right to remain silent allows any person questioned by police merely to refuse to answer questions posed by an investigator without giving any reason for doing so.

The only answer to that possible today is this: If the Russian Revolution becomes the signal for a proletarian revolution in the West, so that both complement each other, the present Russian common ownership of land may serve as the starting point for a communist development ".

The two different but diverging paths along which these rights evolved and operate in Anglo-American jurisprudence ( one through rights expressed in an entrenched constitution, the other in Acts of Parliament specifying rights or protections at common law ) can be seen today in Commonwealth nations like Australia and New Zealand, where police officers are still required at common law to issue " Miranda-style " warnings ( but which are completely unrelated to the US Miranda warning ruling ) and inform an arrested person that they do not have to answer any questions but that whatever they do say ( or do ) can be used in court as evidence.