4.  What are the primary sources of British law and their common features?
【正确答案】 The primary sources of British law are as follows: statutes, equity law, European Community law and a large number of "unwritten" or common laws. (1)Statutes are the laws passed by the Parliament. (2)Equity law is a form of dispute resolution in which an aggrieved party asks his adversary for something other than money. (3)European Community law, also called European Union law, is a body of laws, treaties and court judgments that operate alongside the legal systems of EU's member countries. (4)The common laws are worked out through common practice in the courts. Their common features are that there is no complete code and that there is a distinction made between civil law and criminal law.
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