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Statutory law is created by legislatures, not based on customs, and is drafted in the form of statutes or codes. Court opinions, on the other hand, interpret and apply statutory law to specific cases.
No, a judge's opinion must be based on statutory law, common law, or case law.
Common law is based on custom and precedent, whereas statutory law is based on legislated statutes.
Statutory law is created by legislatures through the passage of statutes and is enforced by the government. Customary law, on the other hand, is based on traditions and practices within a community and is enforced through social norms and expectations. While statutory law is formal and written, customary law is informal and unwritten.
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A statutory body deals with written law; non-statutory deals with implied law.
The fundamental difference between statutory law and common law is their source of authority. Statutory law is created and enacted by legislative bodies, such as parliaments or congresses, while common law is developed by judges through their decisions in court cases. Statutory law is often codified in written statutes, while common law is based on precedent and past court decisions.
There is not a definition for the term statutory felony. Statutory law however, refers to law put in place by a legislative office.
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The state and the federal governments create statutory law.
AnswerAccording to Black's Law Dictionary, blackletter lawrefers to one or more legal principles that are old, fundamental, and well settled. Many of those principles have been codified in statutory law. Although laws are sometimes stricken as unconstitutional, most statutory law is well settled so blackletter law could be used to refer to statutory law although it has a broader meaning than just statutory law.
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.