LEADING CASE - The most important published case in a particular area of law is called the leading case. Such important cases are used as guidance by lawyers and judges who face similar issues later.
Leading Case: Case regarded as having determined the law on a particular point, thus becoming a guide for later decisions.
Leading case
Definition
: a case so well reasoned and important in the rules of law determined and in the principles declared that it becomes well-known and is frequently cited by courts and lawyers as settling the points of law ruled upon and as ...
Law Encyclopedia:
Leading Case
Top
Home > Library > Law & Legal Issues > Law Encyclopedia ...
The leading case is The Immanuel (1799), 2 C. Robinson's Rep. 186. Regulations for the coasting trade may be made by the government of India under the powers of the Customs Consolidation Act 18 53, § 329, ...
he may still have an action of a higher nature, and try the same right again. Lawes, Pl. 39, 40. See generally, Bac. Ab. Abatement, N; Plea in bar. Also the case of Outram v. Morewood, 3 East, Rep. 346-366; a leading case on this subject.
 See also: Law, Court, Case, Right, State
  
|
RSS
