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Yet they have a tendency to dismiss custom as being of slight importance compared to legislation (Georgiadis, General Principles of Civil Law, 19; Washofsky, Taking Precedent Seriously, 7). In the 18th century, Adam Smith presented a philosophical foundation for explaining the connection between law and economics. The self-discipline arose partly out of a critique of commerce unions and U.S. antitrust law. The law of company, insurance coverage law, bills of trade, insolvency and bankruptcy law and sales law are all important, and trace back to the medieval Lex Mercatoria. The UK Sale of Goods Act 1979 and the US Uniform Commercial Code are examples of codified common law commercial ideas.
Law professor and former United States Attorney General Edward H. Levi noted that the “basic pattern of legal reasoning is reasoning by example” – that’s, reasoning by comparing outcomes in cases resolving related legal questions. Supreme Court case concerning procedural …
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