A secondary source on insurance, including any legal treatise, scholarly publication, textbook or other explanatory text, does not constitute the law or public policy of this state and is not authoritative if the secondary source purports to create, eliminate, expand or restrict a cause of action, right or remedy or if it conflicts with any of the following:

Terms Used In Arizona Laws 20-110

  • Action: includes any matter or proceeding in a court, civil or criminal. See Arizona Laws 1-215
  • Case law: The law as laid down in cases that have been decided in the decisions of the courts.
  • Common law: The legal system that originated in England and is now in use in the United States. It is based on judicial decisions rather than legislative action.
  • including: means not limited to and is not a term of exclusion. See Arizona Laws 1-215
  • Precedent: A court decision in an earlier case with facts and law similar to a dispute currently before a court. Precedent will ordinarily govern the decision of a later similar case, unless a party can show that it was wrongly decided or that it differed in some significant way.

1. The United States Constitution or the Arizona Constitution.

2. State law.

3. This state’s case law precedent.

4. Other common law that may have been adopted by this state.

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