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good law

good law noun: a legal statute, regulation, or judicial decision that is considered still valid and applicable.

Noun

good law (uncountable)

  1. A legal statute, regulation, or judicial decision that is considered still valid and applicable.
    • After the criminal code came into force, the old common law offences are replaced and no longer good law.
    • Verify that your cases are good law.2016, David Hricik, Law School Basics: A Preview of Law School and Legal Reasoning, page 100

Examples of good law in a sentence

  • How can you be sure that these cases are good law?2005, Suzan D. Herskowitz, James E. Duggan, Legal Research Made Easy, page 96:
  • Judges were often stymied in settling cases because both parties could cite good law.1986, Stanley Chodorow, Hans Wilhelm Gatzke, Conrad Schirokauer, A History of the World, volume 1, page 221:
  • Both cases are good law, and if here, the husband were dead, and the title remained in the wife, and the bond was sought to be enforced against her, it would be held invalid.1835, Warner v. Sickles, (Ohio Sup. Ct.), Wright, J., in John Crafts Wright, Reports of Cases at Law and in Chancery: Decided by the...

Questions about good law

What does good law mean?
Good law means a legal statute, regulation, or judicial decision that is considered still valid and applicable.
How do you use good law in a sentence?
How can you be sure that these cases are good law?
What part of speech is good law?
Good law is a noun.

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