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common-law

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com·mon-law (kmn-lô)
adj.
1. Of, relating to, or based on common law.
2. Of or relating to a common-law marriage.
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Adj.1.common-law - based on common law; "a common-law right"
unwritten - based on custom rather than documentation; "an unwritten law"; "rites...so ancient that they well might have had their unwritten origins in Aurignacian times"- J.L.T.C.Spence
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Spanish common-law [ˈkɔmənlɔː] adj common-law wife → esposa de hecho
French common-law [ˈkɔmənlɔː] adj common-law wife → épouse f de facto
German common-law [ˈkɔmənlɔː] common adj she is his common-law wife → sie lebt mit ihm in eheähnlicher Gemeinschaft
Italian common-law [ˈkɔmənlɔː] adj common-law wife → convivente f more uxorio

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Pickwick had taken, was an office-lad of fourteen, with a tenor voice; near him a common-law clerk with a bass one.
The British blood was up; and the British resolution to bet, which successfully defies common decency and common-law from one end of the country to the other, was not to be trifled with.
 
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