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...

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

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

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...