"precedent" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Some bankruptcy lawyers, though, questioned whether legal precedent cited by Barneys would apply to its specific circumstances.
- Justice Souter indicated that prior precedent on prejudice in the courtroom applied generally, including to spectators.
- The title of a judgment briefly sets forth the point of law to which the precedent applied and which constitutes the reason for its publication.
- The organization hopes to use a ruling in their favor to discourage further discriminatory practices in Birmingham and other cities where the legal precedent would apply.
- Some common-law jurisdictions do not permit retroactive criminal legislation, though new precedent generally applies to events that occurred before the judicial decision.
- A question in the new case, Anderson v. Roe, No. 98-97, is how that precedent applies to a reduction rather than elimination of benefits.
- Before the judge rules, Microsoft will offer its view of what legal precedents should apply to his findings of fact, as will the government.
- Arbour appeared to be red in the face while discussing the matter with Fraser tonight, perhaps suggesting that precedent should have applied.
- The precedent established with the 9/11 compensation for unprecedented terrorist attacks should apply to unprecedented natural disasters as well.
- He said the court's 1968 precedent, Terry v. Ohio, applied to just such "ambiguous situations" where probable cause is lacking.
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