...United States of America, in contradistinction to other great systems, such as the Roman or Civil Law. Those principles, usages, and rules of action applicable...property, which do not rest for their authority upon auy express and positive declaration of the will of the legislature. 1 Kent, 492. The body of rules...

...Commentaries, adopted by Judge Thompson, in Wheaton ». Peters, 8 Pet. 669 : " The common law includes those principles, usages, and rules of action applicable to the government and security of the person and property which do not rest for their authority upon any express and positive declaration...

...those principles, usages, and rules of action, applied to the government and security of persons and property, which do not rest for their authority upon...positive declaration of the will of the Legislature." (1.) It is based for the most part upon the common law of England, which was transplanted to this country...

...those principles, usages, and rules of action applicable to the government and security of person and property, which do not rest for their authority upon...express and positive declaration of the will of the legislature.9 .'-'• higher branches of study usually ineluded in the curriculum of the colleges."...

...956) answered the Inquiry by quoting the language of Kent (1 Com. 471) that "the common law Includes those principles, usages, and rules of action applicable to the government and security of persons and property, which do not rest for their authority upon any express and positive declaration of. the will...

...teaching advanced pupils in the classics, and in all 3. Habitual.1 COMMON LAW. — The common law includes those principles, usages, and rules of action applicable to the government and security of person and property, which do not rest for their authority upon any express and positive declaration...

...not by Act of Parliament, but by plain justice and common sense; or to quote a celebrated judge, " by the common law is meant those principles, usages,...action applicable to the government and security of person and property which do not rest for their authority upon any express declaration of the Legislature."...

...themselves over the country. " Our laws becoming as mixed as our language." The common law includes those principles, usages, and rules of action applicable to the government and security of person and property which do not rest for their authority upon any express or positive declaration...

...that portion of remedial justice which is administered in common-law tribunals ; but it consists of those principles, usages, and rules of action applicable to the government and security of person and property, which do not rest for their authority upon any express and positive declaration...

...as the com. mon law of England, from which it differs only in the forms of administration. It covers those principles, usages, and rules of action applicable to the government and security of property and of person, which do not rest their authority upon any positive statute or enactment. COMMON...