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Precedent is a
judicial decision that
serves as an
authority for
courts when
deciding subsequent identical or
similar cases.
Fundamental to
common law...
- In law, a
commanding precedent is a
precedent whose facts are "on all fours" with the case at hand. In
other words, it
almost exactly tracks it, sharing...
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condition precedent is an
event or
state of
affairs that is
required before something else will occur. In
contract law, a
condition precedent is an event...
- A
precedent book is a do****ent
recording procedural,
legal or
constitutional precedents. Such a book may have
significant constitutional effects, such...
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Common law (also
known as
judicial precedent, judge-made law, or case law) is the body of law
primarily developed through judicial decisions rather than...
- The
Encyclopaedia of
Forms and
Precedents is a
large collection of non-litigious
legal forms and
precedents published by
LexisNexis UK. The encyclopaedia...
- over
whether Kosovo's
unilateral declaration of
independence had set a
precedent in
international law that
could apply to
other separatist movements, or...
- of such
principles as "The (Thin End of the) Wedge" and "The
Dangerous Precedent": The
Principle of the
Wedge is that you
should not act
justly now for...
- The
Nuremberg principles are a set of
guidelines for
determining what
constitutes a war crime. The do****ent was
created by the
International Law Commission...
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himself and the
Lords of
Appeal in Ordinary, that they
would depart from
precedent in the
Lords in
order to
achieve justice.
Until the year 1966, the House...
