Precedent
It is a judgement or a decision taken by an appeal court in some previous case, which would form a basis of all similar cases or trials in the future.
Precedent: A court decision in an earlier case with facts and law similar to a dispute currently before a court.
Precedent: The value that a completed case has on deciding future cases.
Precedent: Previously decided case which is recognized as an authority for determining future cases.
Condition Precedent An event or state of affairs that must occur before something else will be required to occur. In a contract, a condition precedent is an event that must take place before the parties must perform the agreement.
Precedent: Something that has already happened that will influence how future similar events will be viewed by the court.
PRECEDENT
A case which establishes legal principles to a certain set of facts, coming to a certain conclusion, and which is to be followed from that point on when similar or identical facts are before a court.
Precedent - Laws established by previous cases which must be followed in cases involving identical circumstances. (See stare decisis in Foreign Words Glossary.) ...
Precedent - A previous decision or proceeding which may be relied upon.
Preliminary hearing - A hearing appointed to decide a point of procedure, usually in inter partes proceedings.
Precedent
The courts decide cases by applying and interpreting the law to given facts. There is a hierarchy of courts and tribunals for employment law purposes, i.e., House of Lords, Court of Appeal, High Court, EAT, IT.
precedentA rule of law that is established by an appellate court in an earlier case serves as binding precedent in all subsequent similar cases.
precedent: previously adjudged action or decision on same or similar point, serving as a rule or example for present guidance ...
Precedent
A rule of law established in earlier court decisions, that will generally be followed by other courts.
Preponderance of Evidence
The greater weight of the evidence; the general standard of proof required to prevail in a civil case.
PRECEDENT: A previously decided case that is considered binding in the court where it was issued and in all lower courts in the same jurisdiction.
precedent
1) n. a prior reported opinion of an appeals court which establishes the legal rule (authority) in the future on the same legal question decided in the prior judgment.
Precedent
A previously decided case that guides the decision of future cases.
Preemptory challenge
A challenge that may be used to reject a certain number of prospective jurors without giving a reason.
precedent A previously decided case, furnishing an example or authority for determining similar cases in the future.
prejudice, with (or without) See dismissal with prejudice.
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The Court explicitly upheld Engel v. Vitale, in which the Court ruled that the sanctioning of a prayer by the school amounted to a violation of the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution ...
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The doctrine by which courts are obliged to follow past decisions.
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Term: Precedent
Definition: A rule of law established in earlier court decisions, that will generally be followed by other courts.
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Precedent: A judicial decision that a court should follow when deciding a similar case. To serve as a precedent for a current case, a prior decision must have a similar legal issue and a similar factual scenario.
Precedent
Judicial decision that serves as an example for how to rule in similar cases
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Precedent - A previously decided case that guides the decision of future cases.
Preliminary hearing - Another term for arraignment.
Preponderance of the evidence - Greater weight of the evidence; the common standard of proof in civil cases.
Precedents that pass sub silentio are of little or no authority. 16 Vin. 499.
Precedents has as much law as justice.
The precedent becomes binding and must be followed by courts of like rank.
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Condition precedent
Definition -
: a condition that must be fulfilled before performance under a contract can become due, an estate can vest, or a right can become effective
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A condition precedent is one which must be performed before the estate will vest, or before the obligation is to be performed.
Condition Precedent:
A contractual condition that is required to be met before a contract can be completed.
Condition Subsequent:
A condition in a contract that causes the contract to become invalid if a certain event occurs.
Condition precedent
A contractual condition that suspends the coming into effect of a contract unless or until a certain event takes place.
Case LawJudge-made law and legal decisions from previous cases that form precedents for future cases. Depending on what level of court, case law can be binding or just persuasive.
Case law: Published court decisions which establish legal precedents, binding lower courts.
Caveat: (Latin: let him beware.) A formal warning.
TOP Stare decisis : A basic principle of the law whereby once a decision (a precedent) on a certain set of facts has been made, the courts will apply that decision in cases which subsequently come before it embodying the same set of facts.
For a long time it was thought that precedents could have no place in equity, inasmuch as it professed in each case to do that which was just; ...
Traditional law not laid down by an Act of Parliament, which produces Statute Law, but rather evolving from judges decisions in case law, tradition and ancient practice based on historical legal precedents developed over hundreds of years.
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To stand by precedents and not to disturb that which is settled: to follow decided cases; adhere to precedents.
A basic principle of the law whereby once a decision (a precedent) on a certain set of facts has been made, the courts will apply that decision in cases which subsequently come before it embodying the same set of facts.
treaties between countries; multi-lateral agreements; some commissions covering particular subjects, such as whaling or copyrights; procedures and precedents of the International Court of Justice ("World Court") which only has jurisdiction when ...
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The rules or principles by which the UK is governed. These rules comprise the current laws of the land (statutes in force), legal precedent and the sometimes unwritten conventions and traditions of the UK and its institutions.
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dictum - An expression by a judge that is on a point other than the exact issue in the case. It is not binding precedent, although it may be cited in legal argument.
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INFRA - Regarding something that is cited as legal precedent later in the same document.
STARE DECISIS
To stand by things decided
The doctrine under which courts adhere to precedent on questions of law.
Citation -A writ or order issued by a court commanding the person named therein to appear at the time and place named; also the written reference to legal authorities, precedents, reported cases, etc., in briefs or other legal documents.
the body of law that governs maritime matters and that is not derived from statute. This may also be known as common maritime law. The requirements come from court precedent. Its origins go back to the beginning of American history.
person or persons asking for permission to intervene in a case in which they are not otherwise involved, usually to present their point of view (or that of their organization) in a case which has the potential of setting a legal precedent in their ...
Case Law - Case law is the general term for the legal principles "developed by judges" in determining legal disputes and is recorded in judicial decisions or judgments. It is often referred to as common law or judge made law or precedent.
The constitutionality of state economic regulation was upheld in such early Fourteenth Amendment precedents as the Slaughterhouse Cases (1873) and Munn v. Illinois (1877).
Most courts require as a condition precedent to granting rescission that it be possible to restore the parties to their status quo, i.e., that after rescission they be in much the same condition as before.
Doctrine A rule or principle or the law established through the repeated application of legal precedents. Domicile The permanent residence of a person; a place to which, even if he or she were temporary absent, they intend to return.
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