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Aha, so that's an actual modern-day example? An official who tries to prevent a gay marriage can be punished under common law even though there is no legislated
by mysterypie 10y ago
Aha, so that's an actual modern-day example? An official who tries to prevent a gay marriage can be punished under common law even though there is no legislated law against officials trying to prevent gay marriage.
- a_humean 10y agoYes, there is no explicit statute that says that an official can be punished for preventing gay marriage, but new case law would make this an offence and a lower court might need to establish further new case law to decide what an appropriate punishment might be for the official or state that does try to block it within the legal context of similar violations of law both in statute and case law. Basically they would get fired for not performing their duties as an official.