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What are precedents?

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Noun
  1. plural of precedent
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The shift to decompositional conceptions of analysis was not without precedents, however.
Law is based on judge-made precedents, authoritative legal texts, and legislation.
There were precedents in most agrarian societies for wage labor and tenantry.
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Such provisions sometimes admit of multiple interpretations, especially when jurists ignore the relevant history and precedents.
The Court may have declined to review the case because its outcome seemed to be determined by recent Court precedents.

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