Bad law
Bad law, or a bad law, or bad laws may refer to:
- A law that is oppressive
- A law that causes injustice
- Dumb laws, those laws which are particularly bizarre
- A proposition of law that is erroneous; an attempted statement of the law that is inaccurate; non-law
Case law
- A precedent that has been overruled
- A judicial decision that is no law at all[1]
- A judicial decision that was "wrongly decided"[2]
- A judicial decision that was made per incuriam[3]
Books
- Bad Laws, a book
Maxims
- Bad law makes hard cases, a maxim
Notes
- ↑ Hanford v Artcher (1842) 4 Hill 271 at 324
- ↑ "Bad Law" (1913) 19 Case and Comment 600 Google Books
- ↑ Nairobi Law Monthly 1991 Google Books
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