Antonym: following. Similar words: unprecedented, precede, antecedent, recede, secede, recent, recently, president. Meaning: ['presɪdənt] n. 1. an example that is used to justify similar occurrences at a later time 2. (civil law) a law established by following earlier judicial decisions 3. a system of jurisprudence based on judicial precedents rather than statutory laws 4. a subject mentioned earlier (preceding in time). adj. preceding in time, order, or significance.
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31. Clause 9.2 of Precedent 2 contains a standard clause preventing sub-contracting.
32. He established a precedent that the president can act far more extensively than the constitution allows.
33. Here he was following a precedent created by Lanfranc,(http://sentencedict.com/precedent.html) who had already consecrated bishops of Dublin in 1074 and 1085.
34. Precedent, however, suggests that his comments will offer only cold comfort to Mr Jiang and Mr Li.
35. That probably accounts for some of the scepticism after the decision to ape stock market precedent and end business barriers between underwriters.
36. For the Soviet Union, the return to any nation of territory occupied during the war would create a dangerous precedent.
37. Clause 7.4 of Precedent 3 is a simple example of such a clause.
38. The decision to change the rules of precedent in the House of Lords was not a sudden one.
39. Precedent counts for much, especially in the dreadfully slow handling of individual cases.
40. If exchange and completion is to be simultaneous, conditions precedent are often included as a checklist for all parties.
41. So, Major may be going for broke by breaking with precedent.
42. We were quite proud of this achievement as it would seem to have no precedent.
43. It was without precedent in the United States, which explains the difficulties encountered by the preservationists.
44. We shall return later in this chapter to the doctrine of precedent.
45. Thirdly, there was now a legal precedent upon which to mount attacks on politically inspired censorship.
46. Those who gladly accept Berezovsky's money today point to the precedent set by Bonner.
47. Then I began on custom and practice - a fascinating subject, because so much depends on precedent rather than formal agreements.
48. The unions also attacked the Labor government's precedent in compensating employers in an industrial dispute.
49. The doctrine of precedent is bound up with the need for a reliable system of law reporting.
50. The pattern of assessment followed precedent, with only two courses requiring examinations.
51. Rampart Dam, however, was an ecological disaster probably with-out precedent in the world.
52. In the current climate the referendum has created a dangerous precedent.
53. Precedent 3 is intentionally a minimalist document, which contains little boilerplate, and little by way of exclusion clauses.
54. An understanding of it is not so essential as that of the working of precedent.
55. Clause 12 of Precedent 1 deals with the point in the correct way to avoid this problem.
56. That has created a precedent which, it is argued, could also apply to the presidential term.
57. Both he and Wilkins were able to invoke past precedent for their concepts of biblical accommodation.
58. Often the drafter will be able to improve on a precedent.
59. The ruling also set a firm precedent against deals reached among lawyers handling business lawsuits to keep court filings secret.
60. The law operates retrospectively on the basis of precedent, examining each individual case on its merits.
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