common law
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Chief Justice John Roberts stressed in the Jarkesy majority opinion that government penalties “designed to punish or deter the wrongdoer” are a “prototypical common law remedy.”
He also said he understood he had "common law employment rights", adding "this will be better understood by lawyers than by me".
From BBC
Misconduct in Public Office is part of England's "common law" - which means judges came up with it hundreds of years ago, rather than Parliament.
From BBC
“History has placed us all, Northerner and Southerner, black and white, within a common border and under a common law,” he said.
In the modern era, the British heritage of common law, freedom of speech and personal virtue didn’t constrain innovation but produced it.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
