Sources of law : common law

let`s get down to business without a peep. It`s great

that so many of you were able to come here to listen to my presentation this morning.

namely the common law sources (also known as case law or

precedent).

the law students as a great lawyer should be familiar

with the laws and their origins. It`s only right to say that a lawyer without the knowledge of the law is not a lawyer.

are changing almost every day until I the real court.”-thoughts

of one of the most successful lawyer of our times.

I will be giving you a little information about what

is common law.
I’ll then go on to the basic principles of common law.
I’ll also introduce you interaction of constitutional, statutory and common law.

law developed by:
judges,
courts,
and similar tribunals.

one must locate any relevant statutes and cases.
Then one

must extract the principles, analogies and statements by various courts of what they consider important to determine how the next court is likely to rule on the facts of the present case.
Finally, one integrates all the lines drawn and reasons given, and determines "what the law is". Then, one applies that law to the facts.

law is crucial to understanding almost all important areas of

law. In almost all areas of the law (even those where there is a statutory framework, such as contracts for the sale of goods, or the criminal law), legislature-enacted statutes generally give only terse statements of general principle, and the fine boundaries and definitions exist only in the interstitial common law.

important branch of low as one third of the world's

population live in common law jurisdictions or in systems mixed with civil law.

the beginning, great precedential weight to common law makes it

different from the others sources of law and by that turns the system into more equitable.

Sources law

common law

statutory law

legislation

judicial precedent

equity