black letter law

She taught what legal scholars call black letter law, which is to say her approach was descriptive.

Statutes are sometimes referred to as legislation or "black letter law."

Not your nonsense religious law, but the black letter law of this country.

It was black letter law, as they say, carved in stone over the years by hundreds of judges and justices.

That is when soft systems not backed by black letter law fail our citizens and do not deliver justice.

The procedure differs in this respect from the black letter law governing voluntary euthanasia.

The term hornbook law is sometimes used to describe basic, settled legal principles - see black letter law.

While there is (loose) consensus in black letter law, there is no universally accepted, technical definition.

At personal option, law school graduates could perform supervised work in the courts instead of demonstrating their ability to memorize tracts of black letter law.

In 1987 I worked with a chief inspector who had just returned from university having read for a Bramshill scholarship in what he called 'black letter law'.

The Southern California Institute of Law places strong emphasis on legal rationales, general jurisprudence, black letter law and practical experience.

Restatements of the Law, published by the American Law Institute as scholarly refinements of black letter law; these include:

Many of the top schools in the United States are much more interested in teaching students legal theory and analysis than they are in the specific doctrines or "black letter law".

Being a monarchical state, with its roots invested in Colonial England, black letter law is the principles of law accepted by the majority of judges in most provinces and territories.

The ALI's aim is to distill the "black letter law" from cases, to indicate a trend in common law, and, occasionally, to recommend what a rule of law should be.

In lawyer lingo, hornbook law or black letter law is a fundamental and well-accepted legal principle that does not require any further explanation, since a hornbook is a primer of basics.

You can see this in the quote above from the Supreme Court where the Court is noting that while the black letter law is clear, New York precedent deviates from the general principles.

Mr Medina Ortega tries to be very clear in his report and I applaud that, but there will always be a wish amongst legislators to use, as it were, alternative regulatory methods other than black letter law.

In common law legal systems, the term black letter law is used to refer to the technical legal rules to be applied in a particular area, which are most often largely well-established and no longer subject to reasonable dispute.

A substantial number of federal cases deal with REAs: "It is black letter law that every contract with the government contains an implied obligation that neither party will do anything to prevent, hinder, or delay performance."

He often told students that when he and Gilmore were young professors, he decided that he needed to write a "black letter law" book as an alternative to relying solely on constitutional law to make his reputation.

It was unique in offering a broad range of courses, including International Law, Taxation, Labour Law, Conflicts of Law, and Municipal Law in addition to the traditional black letter law classes.

This is a direct derivative of the black letter law which states that if the gene was newly isolated and characterised, then it was not a mere discovery; it was an industrially applicable technical solution to a technical problem.

The letter of the law is its actual implementation, thereby demonstrating that black letter laws are those statutes, rules, acts, laws, provisions, etc. that are or have been written down, codified, or indicated somewhere in legal texts throughout history of specific state law.

His 1772 work, "Essay on the Learning of Contingent Remainders and Executory Devices", is deemed to have done "more than any other to preserve the Rule in Shelley's Case as black letter law (as distinguished from a rule of construction)."