Definition of Case Law

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Definitions from Black's Law Dictionary: 2nd Edition and Ballentine's Law Dictionary as are available for each term in each dictionary.
  • Case law
    Ballentine's Law Dictionary

    The law as laid down in the decisions of the courts.

  • Case Law
    Black's Law Dictionary: 2nd Edition

    A professional name for the aggregate of reported cases as forming a body of jurisprudence; or for the law of a particular subject as evidenced or formed by the adjudged cases; in distinction to statutes and other sources of law.

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