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Statutes are an important source of legal rules. This is of course true by definition for code-based legal systems, but it is also increasingly true for present day common law systems.
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Henket, M. (1988). Statutes in Common Law and Civil Law. In: Kevelson, R. (eds) Law and Semiotics. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0771-6_10
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