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Kitchie
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Re: The Most Important Law to the Whole Driving Issue
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When the STATE OF NEVADA posted its NEVADA REVISED STATUTES the meaning of the common law was stripped out. It would be nice to be able to just go to the "Session laws" of Nevada state to see what the common law is.
For those of you who are not lawyers, if the State of Nevada enacted all or part of the common law, the "common law" would automatically cease to be common law and become -- tada!!! -- statutory law. In fact, in almost all of the States, and for almost all issues over which the federal government has jurisdiction, the common law has been replaced by statutory law (the UCC is just one example of codification of common law, although some portions of the UCC never a part of the common law -- art. 9 being mostly a statutory creation -- or are restatements of prior statutes which may or may not have been part of the common law -- art. 3, for example, was previously enacted as the Uniform Negotiable Instruments Law but grows out of the common law, while art. 2 is largely an original codification of common law).
I'll try to follow up on this from time to time. Maybe some of the lurkers from Son of Sui will actually learn something about real law.