body of law

基本解释

A new body of law, one better suited to our digital lives, will ultimately emerge.
一套更适合数字生活的新法典终将问世。
A new body of law, one better suited to our digital lives, will ultimately emerge. Only the timing and the path we will take to get there are in doubt.
如从前的任一类似冲突一样，其结果是确定无疑的：全新的法律体系，即更适合数字化生活的法律体系，最终将胜出，只是我们实现这一目标的时机和路径尚未确定而已。
In the English-speaking countries, judges often apply decided cases to the new facts at hand. So, to a certain extent decided cases are binding precedents and they form part of the body of law.
在讲英语的国家中，法官常将已决的案例适用于手头案件的新事实，所以在某种程度上，已决的案件是有约束力的先例，是法律的一部分。

The Law of Inertia says that, "If a body has no forces acting on it, then it will remain at rest if it was at rest to begin with, or if it had a velocity to begin with, it will maintain that velocity."
惯性定律就是,"如果一个物体不受外力作用,那么静止的物体依然保持静止,如果物体有个初速度,那么就保持此速度不变"
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The Marshall ruling adds to a growing body of law favouring Canada's native peoples.
ECONOMIST: Canada
EU, and so to adopt its body of law, this system would be put under immense strain.
ECONOMIST: Christoph Blocher, ascendant Swiss populist
The reason was simple, if a tribunal was to be established from whole cloth, without an existing body of law, the sanction of world approval and participation was essential.
NPR: Listening In On the Nuremberg Trials