Common Law - Primary Connotations

Primary Connotations

The term common law has three main connotations and several historical meanings worth mentioning:

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    “A fact is a proposition of which the verification by an appeal to the primary sources of our knowledge or to experience is direct and simple. A theory, on the other hand, if true, has all the characteristics of a fact except that its verification is possible only by indirect, remote, and difficult means.”
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