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   Under the doctrine of STARE DECISIS, common-law judges are obliged to adhere to previously decided cases, or precedents, where the facts are substantially the same. A court's decision is binding authority for similar cases decided by the same court or by lower courts within the same jurisdiction.

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   common law. Common law is law that is derived from judicial decisions instead of from statutes. American courts originally fashioned common law rules based on English common law until the American legal system was sufficiently mature to create common law rules either from direct precedent or by analogy to comparable areas of decided law.

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   Court of Common Pleas, English court of law that originated from Henry II’s assignment (1178) of five members of his council to hear pleas (civil disputes between individuals), as distinguished from litigation to which the crown was a party. It acquired a chief justice in 1272.

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   Nov 10, 2015 · Articles. The Common Law in the Supreme Court. Resolving modern disputes requires a mastery of principles too often thought of as obsolete. Tuesday, November 10, 2015 5 min read By: Richard A. Epstein. Much of the Supreme Court’s work is devoted to interpreting statutes and regulations generated by the modern regulatory state.

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   Within this system of separated powers it rules on the constitutionality of some of the nation’s most important legal and political issues. 1 Since the turn of the 21st century alone, the Court has made decisions that affected the outcome of a presidential election ( Bush v.

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   They include: Court of Common Pleas. Municipal and county courts. Court of Claims. Mayor’s courts. Except in a few instances involving the Court of Claims, appeals from all but Mayor’s Courts go to the Courts of Appeals. Court of Common Pleas.

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   Nov 15, 2022 · The simplest definition for common law is that it’s a “body of law” based on court decisions rather than codes or statutes. But in reality, common law is often more complicated than that. At the center of common law is a legal principle known as stare decisis, which is a Latin phrase that roughly means “to stand by things decided.”