Speaking in a grammatical sense, one sets a precedent, not a precedence.
Precedent in law refers to a legal decision that serves as a rule or pattern in future cases. Example: There is a clear precedent to support the argument of the plaintiff.
Precedence refers to the act of coming before in time or being more important than something else. Example: Although the bride's father wanted to walk her down the aisle, the bride's mother was given precedence since she had raised her daughter alone for her first 21 years.
set a precedent
It means"(something) set by tradition or precedence"Precedence it is , not presidency.
(A precedent is a previous case that sets an example, notably in law. The plural is precedents, which should not be confused with the homophone precedence, which is the state of superiority or higher rank.)"There were several precedents for the legal ruling in the case."
A "precedent" is something that has previously happened and is now used as an example. For example: "The judge's decision set a precedent for many future court cases."
Your children are supposed to take precedence over your social life.Your health and your family are supposed to take precedence over your job, but the company expects you to put the job above all else.The boss told us that the Peterson and the Davis accounts had to take precedence over everything else we were working on.The precedence of this movie's release date would seem to indicate that the idea for it had come first, but in fact, the screenplay for the similar movie that came out six months later had been written years ago.
That is the correct spelling of president (political leader) which is capitalized President when used with a proper name.The homonym (sound-alike word) is precedent, a logical or historical basis.
precedent
"to set a precedent" (note spelling) would mean to begin a certain line of thought or custom which will be picked up by the coming generations as a tradition or custom. The word "precedence" pertains to ranking.
The doctrine of precedent is important because that's where the courts use to govern current cases or to apply the laws if and when a precedent case applies to it.
The noun forms of the verb to precede are precedence, precedent, and the gerund, preceding.
The precedent for voluntary union of the colonies was set with the fundamental orders of Connecticut.
My Lord, you cannot allow such an action. It is entirely without precedence. In this society we follow the bible and to allow such conduct we would have to have some precedent from the holy scriptures.
It means"(something) set by tradition or precedence"Precedence it is , not presidency.
That depends on which court you're referring to. In the federal court system, the US Supreme Court sets binding (or mandatory) precedent for all lower courts; the US Court of Appeals Circuit Courts set binding precedent for all US District Courts within their jurisdiction, but only persuasive precedent elsewhere; the US District Courts do not set binding precedent at all, they only set persuasive precedent.
Washington set an important precedent at the end of his second term.In 1796,he decided not to run for a third term
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Babur was the Mughal emperor who set the precedent of being tolerant toward other religions.
The Kalamazoo Case of 1874 set a precedent that taxing citizens for secondary education (post elementary school) was legal.