Category:Common law

• Common law legal systems (28 C, 7 P)

A

• Aboriginal title (5 C, 18 P)

C

• Civil law (common law) (14 C, 60 P)
• Common-law marriage (12 P)
• Contract law (22 C, 346 P)
• Criminal law (41 C, 185 P)

E

• Estoppel (19 P)
• Evidence law (14 C, 137 P)

L

• Land tenure (6 C, 66 P)
• Common law legal terminology (5 C, 111 P)

O

• Common law offences (3 C, 2 P)

P

• Power of attorney (11 P)
• Property law (22 C, 187 P)

R

• Royal prerogative (42 P)
• Common law rules (27 P)

S

• Sovereign immunity (2 C, 11 P)

T

• Tort law (10 C, 160 P)

W

• Writs (4 C, 60 P)

• Common law
• Mechanisms of the English common law

0–9

• 99-year lease

A

• Abatement ab initio
• Abatement in pleading
• Abatement of debts and legacies
• Abrogation in public law
• Absolute defence
• Abstract of judgment
• Abuse of process
• Answer (law)
• Asset freezing
• Avulsion (common law jurisdictions)

B

• Barrister
• Bill of attainder
• Joe Bloggs
• Blue pencil doctrine

C

• Call to the bar
• Capite
• Caput lupinum
• Casebook method
• Casuistry
• Chastisement
• Chose
• Clean hands
• Common law copyright
• Common law offence
• Common scold
• Conservator of the peace
• Contempt of court
• Contorts
• Court of equity
• Court of record
• Crown debt
• The Crown
• Customary land

D

• Destructibility of contingent remainders
• Desuetude
• Doctrine of exoneration of liens
• Duty of confidentiality

E

• Earl of Oxford's case
• Eggshell skull
• Embanking of the tidal Thames
• English Constitution Party
• Equity (law)
• Escheat
• Exclusive right

F

• Falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus
• Fee simple
• Feoffment
• Fiduciary
• Form of action
• Four Fs (legal)
• Fraudulent concealment
• Fused profession

H

• Hue and cry

I

• Ignis suus
• Implied trust
• Impossibility defense
• Impossibility of performance
• Incentive trust
• Indictable offence
• Inherent jurisdiction
• Inquest
• Insane delusion
• Intestacy
• Intrusion on seclusion
• Irreparable injury
• Italian trust law

J

• Jural rights
• Jurisprudential reception
• Jus commune
• Justice of the peace

K

• King's Counsel

L

• Latitat
• Legal impossibility
• Letter of comfort (contract law)

M

• Marital life estate
• McKenzie friend
• Misprision of felony
• Misprision of treason

N

• Nervous shock
• Next friend
• Non prosequitur

O

• Obiter dictum
• Obscene libel
• Officious intermeddler

P

• Peace (law)
• Peine forte et dure
• Permanent grant
• Personal injury trust
• Personal representative
• Plea in equity
• Posse comitatus
• Prima facie
• Privity of contract
• Property law

Q

• Qui tam

R

• Ratione soli
• Reasonable person
• Reception statute
• Refusing to assist a police officer
• Remainder (law)
• Rentcharge
• Repugnancy
• Res ipsa loquitur
• Res judicata
• Rule of lenity
• Rule of sevens

S

• Secret profit
• Senior counsel
• Shawcross principle
• Simple contract
• Sinecure
• Slavery at common law
• Sovereign citizen movement
• Specific legacy
• State v. Palendrano
• Struck jury
• Subrogation
• Surrogate decision-maker

T

• Terra nullius
• Test (law)
• Trust (law)
• Turbary

U

• Unowned property

W

• Warrant of committal
• Welsh mortgage
• Writ