• Precedent is a principle or rule established in a legal case that becomes authoritative to a court or other tribunal when deciding subsequent cases with...
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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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  • A precedent book is a document recording procedural, legal or constitutional precedents. Such a book may have significant constitutional effects, such...
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  • 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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    In law, common law (also known as judicial precedent, judge-made law, or case law) is the body of law created by judges and similar quasi-judicial tribunals...
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    over whether Kosovo's unilateral declaration of independence had set a precedent in international law that could apply to other separatist movements, or...
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  • docket had seen increased use, and the Court treats these orders as precedential despite the lack of opinions attached to the order. The remaining liberal...
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    The Nuremberg principles are a set of guidelines for determining what constitutes a war crime. The document 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...
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  • 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...
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    The London and North Western Railway (LNWR) Improved Precedent Class or Renewed Precedent Class is a class of 2-4-0 steam locomotives originally designed...
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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...
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    The Encyclopaedia of Forms and Precedents is a large collection of non-litigious legal forms and precedents published by LexisNexis UK. The encyclopaedia...
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  • also used interchangeably with common law, is a law that is based on precedents, that is the judicial decisions from previous cases, rather than law based...
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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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    factors support overruling the precedent. Federal courts may (but need not) adhere to an incorrect decision as precedent, but only when traditional tools...
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    executive through decrees and regulations; or established by judges through precedent, usually in common law jurisdictions. Private individuals may create legally...
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  • 72 of 1989 - Grand precedent]. daihanrei.minorusan.net (in Japanese). Retrieved 25 April 2024. "裁判例結果詳細" [Details of court precedent results]. courts.go...
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  • ruled that Burmese are not white based on common knowledge and legal precedent. Moreover, courts ruled Filipinos as not white in the following cases:...
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    The London and North Western Railway Precedent Class was a class of seventy 2-4-0 steam locomotives originally designed for express passenger work. They...
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    hallmark until 2004, when the Precedent line of carts were introduced. The company revealed its next version, the Precedent i2, to critical acclaim, and...
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    LGBTQ legal precedents such as Obergefell v. Hodges, United States v. Windsor, and Lawrence v. Texas. She said these cases are "binding precedents" that she...
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    ongoing over the rightful winner and whether or not the ruling should set a precedent. The Roberts Court (2005–present) is regarded as more conservative and...
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    Errors as to precedent facts, sometimes called jurisdictional facts, in Singapore administrative law are errors committed by public authorities concerning...
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    However, the Court overruled Davis in 2004 in Vieth v. Jubelirer, and Court precedent holds gerrymandering to be a political question. According to calculations...
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    dealing. Fair use was a common-law (i.e. created by judges as a legal precedent) doctrine in the U.S. until it was incorporated into the Copyright Act...
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  • on the merits and established Baker v. Nelson as precedent, although the extent of its precedential effect had been subject to debate. In May 2013, Minnesota...
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    law, to the extent that their decisions in the cases before them become precedent for decisions in future cases. The actual substance of English law was...
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    Singapore in the east. The creation of Eastern Bengal and Assam in 1905 set a precedent for the emergence of Bangladesh. The All India Muslim League was founded...
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  • J.; Parlow, Matthew J. (2008). "Much ado about pluralities: Pride and precedent amidst the cacophony of concurrences, and re-percolation after Rapanos"...
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