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Several lawyers picked up on that on Twitter. It's definitely not a correct statement about every kind of "law." But it's right about statutes, sometimes called "positive law."

English history gave us a very confusing legal structure, where there are statutes, (common) law, and equity -- all variously called "the law."




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