If a similar dispute has been resolved in the past, the court is bound to follow the reasoning used in the prior decision ( this principle is known as stare decisis ).

If, however, the court finds that the current dispute is fundamentally distinct from all previous cases ( called a " matter of first impression "), judges have the authority and duty to make law by creating precedent.

If a dispute arises as to the accuracy or completeness of the codification of an unenacted title, the courts will turn to the language in the United States Statutes at Large.

If Bell's inequalities are violated, either local realism or counterfactual definiteness must be incorrect ; but some physicists dispute that experiments have demonstrated Bell's violations, on the grounds that the sub-class of inhomogeneous Bell inequalities has not been tested or due to experimental limitations in the tests.

If Canada holds that the principle of natural prolongation applies to the Juan de Fuca Canyon on its Pacific Ocean coast, the assertion could undermine Canada's argument in the Gulf of Maine boundary dispute.

If a dispute arose, the judges dealt first with the contract.

If reconciliation succeeded, all parties considered the dispute to be honorably settled, and went home.

If the dispute arises because some aspect of the constitution is ambiguous or unclear, the ultimate resolution of the crisis often establishes a precedent for the future.

If the context of inheritance rights, it will be the heirs of the deceased person who are attempting to dispute or establish paternity.

If among monks or nuns occurs a quarrel or dispute or dissension, the young monk should ask forgiveness of the superior, and the superior of the young monk.

And If any dispute shall arise between the Parties the present Convention relating to its interpretation or application, the dispute shall, at the request of any one of the Parties to the dispute, be referred to the International Court of Justice ( Article 22 ).

If these efforts are ineffective, they may ask SEOM ( Senior Economic Officials Meetings ) to establish panel of independent arbitrators to review the dispute.

* Dispute resolution: If a dispute over an actual or proposed national rule cannot be resolved after a 30-day consultation, the matter may be referred to a panel comprising independent experts that the parties select.

If a dispute arises under both CAFTA-DR and the WTO Agreement, the complaining party may choose either forum.

If a BBB receives a consumer dispute, the BBB contacts the business in question and offers to mediate the dispute.

If a individual's right under the law is at stake, the dispute must be determined through a fair process.

" If schools or physicians differed over who should get an allotment of bodies, the dispute was to be settled by the mayor – a high-reaching conspiracy that resulted in a harvest of about 450 bodies per school year.

If the president was unable to settle the dispute, then the player would be placed in the reserve list of the franchise and would be unavailable to play for any team in the NFL that year.

If both parties agreed on the same resolution, the dispute was resolved.

* Provide verification of the debt If a consumer sends a written dispute or request for verification within 30 days of receiving the § 1692g notice, then the debt collector must either mail the consumer the requested verification information or cease collection efforts altogether.

If the erupted jet is unable to heat the surrounding air sufficiently, convection currents will not be strong enough to carry the plume upwards and it falls, flowing down the flanks of the volcano.

If the wisdom tooth has erupted out of the jawbone but not through the gumline, it is called a soft tissue impaction.

If a large amount of magma is erupted, causing the chamber to reduce considerably in volume, then this can result in a depression at the surface called a caldera.

If the water were to become heavily saturated, it could become an even greater risk to human and animal life, as it is located very close to a potential trigger, Mount Nyiragongo, an active volcano that erupted in January 2002.

If the Union conceded this to them, the same right must be conceded to each remaining state whenever it saw fit to secede: This would destroy the federal balance between it and the states, and in the end sacrifice to the sovereignty of the states all the liberty the citizens had gained by their Union.

If we examine the three types of change from the point of view of their internal structure we find an additional profound difference between the third and the first two, one that accounts for the notable difference between the responses they evoke.

If we grasp this opportunity to build an age of productive partnership between the less fortunate nations and those that have already achieved a high state of economic advancement, we will make brighter the outlook for a world order based upon security and freedom.

If he were to go with White, he would be out there two days, not just listening in the dark at some point between here and Papa-san, but moving ever deeper into enemy land -- behind Papa-san -- itself.

If the Af bond is linear then there are three reasonable positions for the hydrogen atoms: ( 1 ) The hydrogen atoms are centered and hence all lie on a sheet midway between the oxygen sheets ; ;

If one assumes that the average flux did not change between measurements, a mass-distribution curve is obtained which relates the flux of particles larger than a given radius to the inverse 7/2 power of the radius.

If the rake angle **yc of the knife is high enough and the friction angle **yt between the front of the knife and the back of the chip is low enough to give a positive value for Af, the resultant vector R will lie above the plane of the substrate.

`` If there was collusion between an outside murderer and a member of the household it would be an elementary precaution to check on the door later.

`` If asked to choose between a terrible probability and a more terrible possibility, most men will choose the latter ''.

`` If Philip Toynbee is claiming that the choice lies between capitulation and the risk of nuclear war, I think he is right.

If there is a substantial difference between characters ' ranks, the conflict is generally over before the weaker character can react.

* Let Q be a set enclosed between two step regions S and T. A step region is formed from a finite union of adjacent rectangles resting on a common base, i. e. S ⊆ Q ⊆ T. If there is a unique number c such that a ( S ) ≤ c ≤ a ( T ) for all such step regions S and T, then a ( Q )

If antimatter-dominated regions of space existed, the gamma rays produced in annihilation reactions along the boundary between matter and antimatter regions would be detectable.

If a tile is placed between two hotel chains of the same size, the individual player who places the tile decides which hotel chain remains on the board and which is acquired.

If placing a tile causes three or four chains to merge, then the merger steps are handled between the largest and second-largest chain, then with the third-largest chain, and finally with the smallest chain.

If the pencil with the angle u2 is that of the maximum aberration of all the pencils transmitted, then in a plane perpendicular to the axis at O ' 1 there is a circular disk of confusion of radius O ' 1R, and in a parallel plane at O ' 2 another one of radius O ' 2R2 ; between these two is situated the disk of least confusion.

If the daughter is an only child or her sisters are deceased and have no living issue, she ( or her heir ) is vested with the title ; otherwise, since a peerage cannot be shared nor divided, the dignity goes into abeyance between the sisters or their heirs, and is held by no one.

If a planet is found to rotate slower than expected, then astronomers suspect that the planet is accompanied by a satellite, because the total angular momentum is shared between the planet and its satellite in order to be conserved.

If not, the system may either be rejected or accepted on conditions previously agreed between the sponsor and the manufacturer.

If this special relationship does not exist then it not usually spoken of as " backward " compatibility but is instead just " compatible "— a consistent interface allowing interoperability between components and products that were each developed separately.

In the words of Geoffrey Crowther, then editor of The Economist, " If the economic relationships between nations are not, by one means or another, brought fairly close to balance, then there is no set of financial arrangements that can rescue the world from the impoverishing results of chaos.

If a stranger entered the circle, he had to do so to the woman's right so as not to come between her and her husband.

If rain arrives, it is usually between August and October.

If evolutionary processes are blind to the difference between function F being performed by conscious organism O and non-conscious organism O *, it is unclear what adaptive advantage consciousness could provide.