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Carl v. Children's Hospital, 702 A.2d 159 (1997)

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Carl v. Children's Hospital, 702 A.2d 159 (1997)
Parent Document
Carl v. Children's Hospital, 702 A.2d 159 (1997)
Jurisdiction
DC (municipal)
Effective Date
1997-09-23

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"[T]he very term `common law' means a system of law not formalized by legislative action, not solidified but capable of growth at the hands of judges." Linkins v. Protestant Episcopal Cathedral Found., 87 U.S.App. D.C. 351, 354-55, 187 F.2d 357, 360-61 (1950) (Prettyman, J.) (emphasis added). "[T]he former common law should not be followed where changes in conditions have made it obsolete. We have never hesitated to exercise the usual judicial function of revising and enlarging the common law." Id. at 355, 187 F.2d at 361 (citation and footnote omitted); see also Nelson v. Nelson, 548 A.2d 109, 112 (D.C.1988). Like the Supreme Court of Kentucky, I