written law

collocation in English

meaningsofwrittenandlaw

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written
adjective
uk
/ˈrɪt.ən/us
/ˈrɪt̬.ən/
expressed in writing, or ...
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law
noun
uk
/lɔː/us
/lɑː/
a rule, usually made by a government, that is used to order the way in which a ...
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(Definition ofwrittenandlawfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The opening section looks at studies that have been made onwrittenlawand private contracts.
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Writtenlawshould not be misleading or incomprehensible without reference to interpretation legislation.
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Therefore, in this paper, the concept of law is limited to suchwrittenlaw.
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Consequently, thewrittenlaw, too, fundamentally inherited the old system, so that the legal codes centered on penalty and punishment, and they remained independently functional.
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Difficult and unusual cases will still arise but lawyers will now seek to solve them by looking to thewrittenlaw.
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A definition of crime as causing a ' 'cosmic disorder' ' can be found nowhere inwrittenlaw, or in the commentaries either.
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He is not curbed by anywrittenlawor custom and those whom he oppresses have not so much as a right to complain.
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No freshwrittenlawcan be made of a discriminatory nature.
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You have made the difficulty by insisting upon awrittenlaw.
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He did not say it was due to anywrittenlaw.
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It is producingwrittenlawthat in many instances will not help the industry.
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These unwritten laws are very often quite as strong as anywrittenlaw.
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What about the inextricable differences between the legislations deriving from common law and those fromwrittenlaw?
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If there is nowrittenlawis there a convention which is holding things up in the building trade?
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Guardianship requirements are notwrittenlaw.
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Writtenlawis increasingly being replaced by unwritten law, which interprets the flexibility of the markets and provides solutions to specific cases.
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The other countries have awrittenlaw—which we have not—applicable to these matters, but unfortunately the laws of the different countries are different.
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In determining the meaning of a provision ofwrittenlaw, the court may consider extrinsic materials, that is, materials not forming part of thewrittenlaw.
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This may not be awrittenlaw, but it is almost a golden rule as far as this particular country, of which we are mighty proud, is concerned.
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Much of the subsequentwrittenlawhas focused on the areas of economics and foreign relations.
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In the crook of his left arm is a large book symbolizingwrittenlaw.
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This process is based largely on constitutional convention rather thanwrittenlaw.
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Nowrittenlawcan take away sin any more than washing with water can.
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It contrasts with the "ius scriptum" (writtenlaw) by way of their sources (e.g. a legislature, court judgments, or custom).
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Awrittenlawof succession was also introduced which only allowed the oldest legitimate son to inherit.
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