{"id":579,"date":"2022-10-04T13:43:56","date_gmt":"2022-10-04T13:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webfastsg.com\/offshore\/?post_type=encyclopedia&#038;p=579"},"modified":"2022-10-04T13:43:56","modified_gmt":"2022-10-04T13:43:56","slug":"common-law","status":"publish","type":"encyclopedia","link":"https:\/\/webfastsg.com\/offshore\/encyclopedia\/common-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Common Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Common law is a system of law that is based on judicial precedents, as opposed to statutory law. This means that common law is derived from the decisions of judges, rather than from <a href=\"https:\/\/webfastsg.com\/offshore\/encyclopedia\/statutes\/\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Statutes are generally created by legislatures through the enactment of legislation. They are often codified, or collected and organized, into code books which contain all of the laws of a jurisdiction. Statutes may also be found in other sources, such as court opinions, treaties, and executive orders. A statute is a written law enacted by&hellip;\" class=\"encyclopedia\">statutes<\/a> enacted by legislatures. In countries that have a common law system, judges play a key role in developing the law, and court decisions are binding precedent on all lower courts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Common law is a system of law that is based on judicial precedents, as opposed to statutory law. This means that common law is derived from the decisions of judges, rather than from statutes enacted by legislatures. In countries that have a common law system, judges play a key role in developing the law, and &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/webfastsg.com\/offshore\/encyclopedia\/common-law\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Common Law<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"encyclopedia-tag":[],"class_list":["post-579","encyclopedia","type-encyclopedia","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webfastsg.com\/offshore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/encyclopedia\/579"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webfastsg.com\/offshore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/encyclopedia"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webfastsg.com\/offshore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/encyclopedia"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webfastsg.com\/offshore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webfastsg.com\/offshore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"encyclopedia-tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webfastsg.com\/offshore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/encyclopedia-tag?post=579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}