In law, common law has multiple meanings:

• For the common law legal system, as contrasted with the civil law legal system, see common law.
• For common law, as contrasted with statutory law, see non-statutory law. This is the usual sense of the term in legal usage in the United States.
• For common law, as contrasted with equity, see non-equity law.
• For common law as law of the land, see jus commune.
• For common-law marriage, see that page.
• "Common law" is also the direct translation of the Latin phrase ius commune, the Roman law common to most Europe during the Middle Ages and comprising mostly Justinian's Corpus Juris Civilis.

• Common Law was also the title of a 1996 ABC sitcom.