Usually means: Law developed by court decisions.
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  1. common-law, common law: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. common law: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. common-law, common law: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. common law: Collins English Dictionary
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  6. common-law, common law: Wordnik
  7. common-law, common law: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. common-law, common law: Wiktionary
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  10. common law: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. common-law, common law: Dictionary.com
  12. Common Law, Common-law, Common law (disambiguation), Common law (legal system), Common law, The Common_Law (Holmes): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. common-law, common law: Free Dictionary
  14. common-law, common law: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. common-law, common law, common law (2): Dictionary/thesaurus
  16. common law: Vocabulary.com
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  1. COMMON LAW: The Britannia Lexicon (Middle Ages Glossary)

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  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  3. common law: Law.com Dictionary
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  5. Common Law: DivorceNet.com (Annotated Divorce Law Dictionary)
  6. COMMON LAW: Accounting Glossary
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  8. Law, Common, common law: A DICTIONARY OF LAW (1893)
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  10. Common law: Inflation Glossary
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  12. Common Law: Investopedia
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  14. Common law, Law, Common, The Common Law, common-law, common law (2): Legal dictionary
  15. Law, Common, common-law, common law: Financial dictionary
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  20. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)

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  1. Law, Common, common-law, common law, common law (2): Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. National MCH Center for Child Death Review (No longer online)
  2. Law, Common, common-law, common law, common law (2): Medical dictionary

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Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Law, Common: Catholic Encyclopedia

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. common law: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. common law: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (common law)

noun:  (law) Law developed by judges, courts, and agency adjudicatory tribunals, through their decisions and opinions (also called case law) (as opposed to statutes promulgated by legislatures, and regulations promulgated by the executive branch).
noun:  (law) Legal system mainly in England and its former colonies with a heavy emphasis on judge-made law, doctrines deduced by casuistry rather than from general principles, and law distributed among judicial decisions rather than codified statutes (as opposed to civil law).
noun:  (law, historical) Body of law and procedure administered in certain courts (known as law courts) in England and its former colonies characterized by a rigid system of writs, with a limited set of remedies (as opposed to equity or admiralty).
noun:  (law, Scots law, Roman-Dutch law) Law of general application throughout a country, province, or state as opposed to law having only a special or local application

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