Only when a decision is rendered by the District Court of Appeal ( or, of course, the Supreme Court ) is a binding precedent established.

By 1525 Henry was infatuated with his mistress Anne Boleyn and dissatisfied that his marriage to Catherine had produced no surviving sons, leaving their daughter, the future Mary I of England, as heiress presumptive at a time when there was no established precedent for a woman on the throne.

This precedent was established during World War II in the Battle of Guadalcanal and still remains viable today.

Constitutionally, the wars established the precedent that an English monarch cannot govern without Parliament's consent, although this concept was legally established only with the Glorious Revolution later in the century.

With the creation of the creed, a precedent was established for subsequent local and regional councils of Bishops ( Synods ) to create statements of belief and canons of doctrinal orthodoxy — the intent being to define unity of beliefs for the whole of Christendom.

Additionally, the departing and respected Theodor Heuss had established the precedent that the president be nonpartisan, which clashed with Adenauer's vision.

In common law legal systems, a precedent or authority is a principle or rule established in a previous legal case that is either binding on or persuasive for a court or other tribunal when deciding subsequent cases with similar issues or facts.

Black's Law Dictionary defines " precedent " as a " rule of law established for the first time by a court for a particular type of case and thereafter referred to in deciding similar cases.

Stare decisis ( Anglo-Latin pronunciation: ) is a legal principle by which judges are obliged to respect the precedent established by prior decisions.

The inferior courts are bound to obey precedent established by the appellate court for their jurisdiction, and all supreme court precedent.

In theory, inferior courts are generally not bound to precedent established by superior courts.

When Leo III crowned Charlemagne ( 800 ), he established the precedent that, in the West, no man would be emperor without anointment by a pope.

These cases established the legal precedent that executive privilege is valid, although the exact extent of the privilege has yet to be clearly defined.

) Castro cited Holocaust reparations as a previously established precedent for the concept of reparations.

Tyler's precedent established that if the President's office becomes vacant due to death, resignation or disqualification, the Vice President becomes President.

Entick established the English precedent that the executive is limited in intruding on private property by common law.

United States law has its roots in English common law, and it had an established precedent of women holding public office.

Tyler's claim was not challenged legally, and so the Tyler precedent of full succession was established.

It involves a great departure from the methods of political action established in this country, where reforms, and especially financial reforms, have always been considerate and even tender ... I do not yet see the ground on which it can be justly held that any one description of property should be more heavily burdened than others, unless moral and social grounds can be shown first: but in this case the reasons drawn from those sources seem rather to verge in the opposite direction, for real property has more of presumptive connection with the discharge of duty that that which is ranked as personal ... the aspect of the measure is not satisfactory to a man of my traditions ( and these traditions lie near the roots of my being )... For the sudden introduction of such change there is I think no precedent in the history of this country.

The War Brides Act of 1945 permitted soldiers to bring back their foreign wives and established precedent in naturalization through marriage.

His tenure also established the precedent of the papal chancellor always being a cardinal and holding the office for life or until elected pope.

His acquittal established the legal precedent for " freedom of the press ," which was later incorporated as a basic freedom in the U. S. Bill of Rights.

Steinway won the case on appeal in 1975, forcing their competitor to use only the name " Grotrian " in the U. S. The case set a precedent and established the concept of " initial interest confusion ", in which consumers might be initially attracted to a similarly named but lesser-known brand because of the stronger brand's good reputation.

The `` approximate '' is important, because even after the order of the work has been established by the chance method, the result is not inviolable.

procedures change rapidly and parental confidence probably exceeds anything warranted by established psychological theory.

One is that they were established, or gained eminence, under pressure provided by these same immigrants, from whom the old families wished to segregate their children.

At first glance this appears strange: of all people, was not America founded by rugged individualists who established a new way of life still inspiring `` undeveloped '' societies abroad??

The merits of the Salk anti-polio vaccine were not established on the forensic platform or in newspaper editorials, but in the laboratory and by tests in the field on thousands of children.

Rather it is a division established by two absolutely different ways of thought with regard to man's life in society.

The `` conventional '' image of a particular time and place is not necessarily congruent with the image of the facts as established over the years by scholarly and scientific research.

Let us not confuse the issue by labeling the objective or the method `` psychoanalytic '', for this is a well established term of art for the specific ideas and procedures initiated by Sigmund Freud and his followers for the study and treatment of disordered personalities.

`` The established pattern of relative calm in the field of race relations has continued in all areas '', reported this group headed by Harold Colee of Jacksonville and including two South Floridians, William D. Singer and John B. Turner of Miami.

He could no longer build anything, whether a private residence in his Pennsylvania county or a church in Brazil, without it being obvious that he had done it, and while here and there he was taken to task for again developing the same airy technique, they were such fanciful and sometimes even playful buildings that the public felt assured by its sense of recognition after a time, a quality of authentic uniqueness about them, which, once established by an artist as his private vision, is no longer disputable as to its other values.

We also continued to run a series of ads featuring endorsement of Rhode Island by industrialists who had recently established new plants here.

It commemorates the 185th anniversary of Rhode Island's Independence when, upon May 4, 1776, the General Assembly, by its action, established the first free republic in the New World.

The 1958 military pay act departed from this established formula by providing for a 6% increase rather than a proportionate increase for everyone retired prior to its effective date of June 1, 1958.

When the early part of the gradient was flattened, either by using the gradient shown in Fig. 2 or by allowing the `` cone-sphere '' gradient to become established more slowly, Region 2 activity could sometimes be separated into two areas ( donors P. J. and R. S., Fig. 1 and E. M., Fig. 2 ).

Although the Taylor Scale was designed as a group testing device, in this study it was individually administered by psychologically trained workers who established rapport and assisted the children in reading the items.

Though little democracy had ever been practised in this region, and much of it was still ruled by feudalistic means, it was taken for granted that at least the forms of Western democracy would be established in this area and Western capitalism preserved within it.

Now, with virtually every writer, not only was the European origin of public law acknowledged as a historical phenomenon, but the rules thus established by the advanced civilizations of Europe were to be imposed on others.

In an FELA controversy the state court followed established state procedure by construing a vague complaint `` most strongly against '' the complainant.

In the fall of 1878, the `` Popular Telegraph Line '' was established between Manchester and Factory Point by the owners, Paul W. Orvis, Henry Gray, J. N. Hard, and Clark J. Wait.

Only by resorting to molding techniques can the cushion manufacturer hope to compete satisfactorily in the established cushion market.

Three methods for determining the dimensional restorability characteristics are established for those textiles which require restoration by ironing or wearing after laundering.