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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...
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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...
- 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...
- 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
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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Shippey as
exemplifying "an
elvish streak ... signalled ... by barely-
precedented intricacies" of poetry. Eärendil
means 'Lover of the Sea' in Tolkien's...
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actually means or
whether it
represents wise policy," the
practice is not a
precedent,
given the fact "that
there has been no
consistently observed date at...
- book
about the
constraints they
faced as commissioners,
titled Without Precedent: The
Inside Story of the 9/11 Commission. The book was
released on August...
- over
whether Kosovo's
unilateral declaration of
independence had set a
precedent in
international law that
could apply to
other separatist movements, or...
