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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...
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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...
- 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...
- 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...
- A
precedent book is a do****ent
recording procedural,
legal or
constitutional precedents. Such a book may have
significant constitutional effects, such...
- 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...
- The
Tyler Precedent was the
constitutional and
political precedent set by
tenth President of the
United States John
Tyler upon the
death of his predecessor...
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Landmark court decisions, in present-day
common law
legal systems,
establish precedents that
determine a
significant new
legal principle or concept, or otherwise...
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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...
