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...

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 document recording procedural, legal or constitutional precedents. Such a book may have significant constitutional effects, such...

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 by...

over whether Kosovo's unilateral declaration of independence had set a precedent in international law that could apply to other separatist movements, or...

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...

The Encyclopaedia of Forms and Precedents is a large collection of non-litigious legal forms and precedents published by LexisNexis UK. The encyclopaedia...

The Nuremberg principles are a set of guidelines for determining what constitutes a war crime. The document was created by the International Law Commission...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

ruled that Burmese are not white based on common knowledge and legal precedent. Moreover, courts ruled Filipinos as not white in the following cases:...

Landmark court decisions, in present-day common law legal systems, establish precedents that determine a significant new legal principle or concept, or otherwise...

executive through decrees and regulations; or established by judges through precedent, usually in common law jurisdictions. Private individuals may create legally...

factors support overruling the precedent. Federal courts may (but need not) adhere to an incorrect decision as precedent, but only when traditional tools...

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...

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...

J.; Parlow, Matthew J. (2008). "Much ado about pluralities: Pride and precedent amidst the cacophony of concurrences, and re-percolation after Rapanos"...

distinguish a case means a court decides the holding or legal reasoning of a precedent case that will not apply due to materially different facts between the...

presidents were not included in meetings of the President's Cabinet. This precedent was broken by Woodrow Wilson when he asked Thomas R. Marshall to preside...

However, the Court overruled Davis in 2004 in Vieth v. Jubelirer, and Court precedent holds gerrymandering to be a political question. According to calculations...

law in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The Enoch Arden law is a legal precedent in the United States that grants a divorce or a legal exemption so that...

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...

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...

British rule. The creation of Eastern Bengal and Assam in 1905 set a precedent for the emergence of Bangladesh. The All-India Muslim League was founded...

State of New York v. Robert Bierenbaum was a landmark decision, setting precedent on upholding physician-patient privilege even when a Tarasoff warning...

Screws v. United States, 325 U.S. 91 (1945), was a 1945 Supreme Court case that made it difficult for the federal government to bring prosecutions when...