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EnglishCommonLaw
EnglishCommonLaw is the attribute of legal systems based on the common law developed in England and influential in its English-speaking colonies. Common law is characterized by laws and rulings based on precedent and custom, rather than on written statute.
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InstancesAbstractProperties or qualities as distinguished from any particular embodiment of the properties/qualities in a physical medium. Instances of Abstract can be said to exist in the same sense as mathematical objects such as sets and relations, but they cannot exist at a particular place and time without some physical encoding or embodiment.
 AttributeQualities which we cannot or choose not to reify into subclasses of.
 EntityThe universal class of individuals. This is the root node of the ontology.
 LegalSystemAttributeLegalSystemAttribute is the class of Attributes that are used to characterize legal systems, as, e.g., according to their sources, areas of concern, or principles of organization.
 RelationalAttributeAny Attribute that an Entity has by virtue of a relationship that it bears to another Entity or set of Entities, e.g. SocialRoles and PositionalAttributes.
Belongs to Class Entity


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