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Recent Examples of common law Other Options The supplemental claim process does not apply to common law employers who did not use a third-party payer and instead filed adjusted employment tax returns using their own EIN. Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes, 26 Sep. 2024 In western Europe, by contrast, property rights emerged in the course of long social battles and were closely associated with the development of common law and the liberal tradition. Foreign Affairs, 11 Feb. 2020 Britain was, and remains, a land of customary or common law. Heather Wilhelm, National Review, 25 July 2024 From the republic’s earliest days, women were constrained by a British inheritance: the common law, which dictated that women were essentially the charges of their husbands or, if unmarried, of their fathers or brothers. Foreign Affairs, 13 Oct. 2020 See all Example Sentences for common law 

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