Books of authority
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books-of-authority-270-5347694
title:
Books of authority
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Books of authority is a term used by legal writers to refer to a number of early legal textbooks that are excepted from the rule that textbooks are not treated as authorities by the courts of England and Wales and other common law jurisdictions. These books are treated by the courts as authoritative statements of the law as it was at the time at which they were written, on the authority of their authors alone. Consequently, they are treated as authoritative statements of the law as it is at the
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Term for some early legal textbooks
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Books_of_authority
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2024-02-07T21:27:40Z
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