The law that has been founded upon immemorial usage, established custom and legal precedents as distinct from statute law. Broadening down from precedent to precedent has developed the common law.
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Common Law comprises the body of principles and rules of action, relating to the government and security of persons and property, which derive their authority solely from usage and customs of immemorial antiquity, or from the judgments and decrees of the courts. It is outside the laws created by enactment of Statutes.