good law

== English == === Noun === good law (uncountable) (law) A legal statute, regulation, or judicial decision that is considered still valid and applicable. 1835, Warner v. Sickles, (Ohio Sup. Ct.), Wright, J., in John Crafts Wright, Reports of Cases at Law and in Chancery: Decided by the Supreme Court of Ohio, p. 82: Both cases are good law, and if here, the husband were dead, and the title remained in the wife, and the bond was sought to be enforced against her, it would be held invalid. === References === Diane Murley, Glossary of Legal Research Terms, SIU Law Library