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Case law should be used as a means of interpreting statutory law. Statutory law is held higher than case law. Case law can be overturned in the process of interpreting and applying statutory law, but statutory law cannot be overturned, only amended. If analyzing law, see statutes first, and apply case law second as a means of defining the statute.
No. Statutory law will always take priority over case law. Case law is made when the given statutory law is either unconstitutional under the applicable state or federal constitution, vague, contradictory, or silent on a particular issue. But sometimes case law will be codified into statute by the appropriate legislative body in question.
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common law; ( case law) statutory law Administrative law court rules constitutional law
Statutory law or statute law is written law (as opposed to oral or customary law) set down by a legislature (as opposed to regulatory law promulgated by the executive or common law of the judiciary) or by a legislator (in the case of an absolute monarchy).
No. "Case law," also called precedent, controls a case only if it has not been superseded by statute. The only exception is case law regarding the constitution.
The four main written sources of American criminal law are constitutional law, statutory law, administrative law, and case law.
No, a judge's opinion must be based on statutory law, common law, or case law.
That the laws on the books, the statutes, are being applied. As opposed to case law (laws developed by the courts).
A statutory body deals with written law; non-statutory deals with implied law.
Constitutional law sets forth the limitations of government, and ensures the inalienable rights of human beings. It is the only law that free men and women are obligated to follow. Statutory law establishes unconstitutional restrictions and illegal government control on people who don't realize that they only have to follow these laws because they fail to enact their constitutional rights. Statutory law also forces otherwise wise men and women to comply in order to take many jobs, or to conduct what should by rights be free trade.