(William Barnacle) would search for a
Precedent; and oftentimes crushing the honourable gentleman flat on the spot by telling him there was no
Precedent.
Explain to her that we have to go by
precedents, and that I believe this one to be new.
"My Lords, the business of the Council being concluded, I have only to wish you a happy New Year." Before departing, he expressed, at some length, to the Clerk, my excellent but most unfortunate brother, his sincere regret that, in accordance with
precedent and for the sake of secrecy, he must condemn him to perpetual imprisonment, but added his satisfaction that, unless some mention were made by him of that day's incident, his life would be spared.
If a minority in such case will secede rather than acquiesce, they make a precedent which in turn will divide and ruin them; for a minority of their own will secede from them whenever a majority refuses to be controlled by such minority.
And while it is obviously possible that such decision may be erroneous in any given case, still the evil effect following it, being limited to that particular case, with the chance that it may be overruled and never become a precedent for other cases, can better be borne than could the evils of a different practice.
For instance, in the case already mentioned; they never desire to know what claim or title my adversary has to my cow; but whether the said cow were red or black; her horns long or short; whether the field I graze her in be round or square; whether she was milked at home or abroad; what diseases she is subject to, and the like; after which they consult
precedents, adjourn the cause from time to time, and in ten, twenty, or thirty years, come to an issue.
Reform therefore, without bravery, or scandal of former times and persons; but yet set it down to thyself, as well to create good
precedents, as to follow them.
The next proceedings were of a public and avowable nature, and strictly followed the customary
precedents on such occasions.
Le cout de construction des logements neufs a Bujumbura, la capitale economique du Burundi, a connu une augmentation de 1,3% au mois de juillet dernier par rapport au mois
precedent, suite a la hausse des prix des materiaux de construction de l'ordre de 1,7%, au dernier bulletin mensuel de l'Institut de statistiques et d'etudes economiques du Burundi (ISTEEBU).
ISLAMABAD -- The federal government Tuesday set a
precedent in the country's history when its cabinet members voluntarily decided ten per cent reduction in their salaries.
In keeping with the holding of In re Civil Penalty, individual panels of the North Carolina Court of Appeals cannot disregard existing
precedent just because the panel believes it improperly narrowed or distinguished another earlier
precedent, the North Carolina Court of Appeals has held.
Another measure in network analysis is closeness centrality which measures the closeness between the citing and cited
precedents and the number of shortest paths passing through a
precedent.
For over thirty years, federal district courts have resolved these types of cases--call them "intercircuit suppression disputes"--by adopting a location-based choice-of-law rule: courts apply the
precedent of the circuit where the search occurred.
SETTLED VERSUS RIGHT: A THEORY OF
PRECEDENT. By Randy J.
