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Re:A bad grade that changed the U.S. constitution (2017) by lmm on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @09:26PM (#28068646)
Judges fill out the details of law that aren't in the statutes, but they're not meant to create substitute statutes from whole cloth.
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Re:A bad grade that changed the U.S. constitution (2017) by xxpor on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @11:47PM (#28069642)
Sure they are. Michigan still has no murder statute. (There's a penalty statute, but the actual definition is common law).
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Re:A bad grade that changed the U.S. constitution (2017) by lmm on Thursday August 05, 2021 @12:38AM (#28069924)
There is non-statute common law from time immemorial, sure, but later law is supposed to be grounded in the stautes.
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