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Other Options The supplemental claim process does not apply to common law employers who did not use a third-party payer and instead filed adjusted employment tax returns using their own EIN.
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Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes, 26 Sep. 2024
In western Europe, by contrast, property rights emerged in the course of long social battles and were closely associated with the development of common law and the liberal tradition.
—Foreign Affairs, 11 Feb. 2020
Britain was, and remains, a land of customary or common law.
—Heather Wilhelm, National Review, 25 July 2024
From the republic’s earliest days, women were constrained by a British inheritance: the common law, which dictated that women were essentially the charges of their husbands or, if unmarried, of their fathers or brothers.
—Foreign Affairs, 13 Oct. 2020
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Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes, 26 Sep. 2024
In western Europe, by contrast, property rights emerged in the course of long social battles and were closely associated with the development of common law and the liberal tradition.
—Foreign Affairs, 11 Feb. 2020
Britain was, and remains, a land of customary or common law.
—Heather Wilhelm, National Review, 25 July 2024
From the republic’s earliest days, women were constrained by a British inheritance: the common law, which dictated that women were essentially the charges of their husbands or, if unmarried, of their fathers or brothers.
—Foreign Affairs, 13 Oct. 2020
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“Common law.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/common%20law. Accessed 28 Nov. 2024.
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