Common law seems so stupid (hexbear.net)

submitted 3 weeks ago by RION@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

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Instead of making laws like normal a judge from a hundred years ago gets to be the authority unless yet another judge decides to overrule them and become the new authority???

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[-] RION@hexbear.net 12 points 3 weeks ago

In civil law they still take into account how a law has previously been applied, they just don't get to declare what is often in effect a new law through their ruling