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precedent
English
- 🔊 preceding in time, order, or significance
- 🔊 an example that is used to justify similar occurrences at a later time
- 🔊 a subject mentioned earlier (preceding in time)
- 🔊 (civil law) a law established by following earlier judicial decisions
- 🔊 a system of jurisprudence based on judicial precedents rather than statutory laws“common law originated in the unwritten laws of England and was later applied in the United States”
In Spanish
- 🔊 antecedente precedent
- 🔊 precedente precedent