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【范文网站】Where no statute or constitutional provision controls, both federal and state courts often look to the common law, a collection ofjudicial decisions, customs, and general principles that began centuries ago in England and continues to develop today. In many states, common law continues to hold an important role in contract disputes, as state legislatures have not seen fit to pass statutes covering every possible contractual contingency.