Definition of case law
: law established by judicial decision in cases
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Examples of case law in a Sentence
Case law says that a person has a right to privacy.
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Trump’s lawyers pointed to case law suggesting Mueller would have to show that investigators were unable to obtain the same information elsewhere before demanding an interview with Trump.
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Berman Jackson pressed both sides largely on questions of case law and appeared somewhat skeptical about Manafort's arguments that evidence should be purged before the trial.
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Regulatory analysts say a legal theory being used to scrutinize hundreds of Health and Human Services Department regulations from the Obama administration is not supported by case law.
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No president has been formally accused of breaching the Constitution’s Emoluments Clauses before, which means there’s little case law on the subject.
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Since Green is the first SRC member to seek political office, there is no case law on the question.
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The following paragraph from the case law on point here was then read aloud: Disclosing the client’s name would not necessarily reveal his or her purpose in consulting attorney . . .
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The trustees insisted that boards in Illinois cannot legally bind future boards to lengthy employment agreements and based that argument on 19th-century case law.
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There’s no existing case law to guide procedure, so new ways of handling the issue will be devised as hearings take place.
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First Known Use of case law
1731
CASE LAW Defined for English Language Learners
case law
Definition of case law for English Language Learners
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: law that is based on decisions that judges have made in past cases
Law Dictionary
case law
legal Definition of case law
: law established by judicial decisions in cases as distinguished from law created by legislation — called also
decisional law; see also common law
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