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...

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

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...

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...

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 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...