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...

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

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...

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...

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...