statutory law

基本解释

Statutory Law has inherent limitation which can't be broken by itself, precedent has some advantages that can overcome it.
成文法有其局限性，这种局限性是其本身固有而又是它自身无法克服的。判例制度正是克服了这一局限性的有效形式。
Mixed legal traditions - because in some legal traditions, differences between statutory law and customary law result in unequal treatment of women versus men
混杂的法制传统-因为在一些法制传统下，法令性法律与惯例性法律的差异导致对妇女和男性的不平等对待。
Most fields of private law still consist primarily of case law and the extensive and steadily growing statutory law continues to be subject to binding interpretation through case law.
私法的大部分领域仍主要是判例法，而且日益增多的制定法在判例法体系中仍受制于有法律拘束力的司法解释。
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