case law

Questions about case law

What does case law mean?

case law means "a system of jurisprudence based on judicial precedents rather than statutory laws". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for case law?

Close synonyms include common law, precedent, precedent, common law. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is case law a common word?

case law is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.