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Understanding Common Law (with John Hasnas)

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The Common Law of Verparian Rigts

Common law is always a patchwork quilt of local rules that work in ccumstances and more general rules that apply everywhere. The common law gives you a very flexible, nuance, set of rules that allows us to live together peacefully. You don't want the same rules governing the slum lords in the inner city and somebody renting his extra room in utik, new york. Andm s, not distression. Si, read made somword reverse a. It's not law. I think what you're referring to is something else, referring to criminal law. Criminal law is where the state is allowed to punish citizens for violating its rules. So far i've been talking

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