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The President of the United States of America has much to answer for, not least his popularizing of the verb "trump". Mr Timbrell said (what's obviously true, in some sense) that common law is "superior" to statute law, whereupon Anon pipes up that statute law "trumps" common law because a common law rule can be altered or abolished by Act of Parliament. Clearly no issue has been joined here.

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