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Precedent is a component of common law
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"Precedent"?
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Where the law does not set a precedent to be followed by Courts lower in the Court hierarchy, it must turn to the Statute (or legislation) that is prescribed in that area
Common law refers to law developed by judges through decisions of courts that are called precedent. Roman law, or civil law, differs from common law in that it is based solely on a legal code instead of precedent.
common law is based on precedent rather on statute law
The precedent man wanted everyone to know that he changed the law.
No. An appeal to precedent is a type of analogy. This is the practice of using a case that has already been decided in a court of law (the precedent) as an analog with which to compare the case in question. If the case in question is sufficiently similar to the precedent, and the precedent stands on the authority of the court's ruling, then it may be argued by analogy that the case in question should receive the same ruling. It would be inconsistent, hence illogical, to treat like cases (the analogs) differently. (McGraw Hill Moral reasoning)
Common law precedent simply refers to the tradition in the Anglo-American legal system of following the rules set down in previous cases involving the same facts. As such, there is no particular time when common law precedent was enacted or affected as a general matter. Each particular precedent came into being when the first case that addressed the issue was decided.
"precedent" means that the judgment made by law. "common law" means that as well as precedent, but it came from England