Quotes About Precedent

One precedent creates another and they soon accumulate and constitute law. What yesterday was a fact, today is doctrine.

Learn from those who have paved the way before you. - Kailin Gow on Wisdom

Every public action which is not customary, either is wrong, or, if it is right, is a dangerous precedent. It follows that nothing should ever be done for the first time.

One precedent creates another and they soon accumulate and constitute law. What yesterday was a fact, today is doctrine.

A lawsuit with no legal precedent, seeking no damages, from no jury, in the name of stopping something that isn't happening? Only in New York.

It's our responsibility as young men to set a new precedent for the next generation.

I'm inspired by looking at art, by looking at precedent. Looking is what you have to do if you want to make things, so you develop a critical eye.

If Donald Trump is one thing, he's a disruptive force who has never met a tradition and precedent that he doesn't want to disrupt.

There was no precedent. If I asked somebody, 'What do you expect me to do?' they all looked blank. They had no idea; nobody had much idea.

Remember that it is not the lawyer who knows the most law, but the one who best prepares his case, who wins.

There is no evidence when we look to the past for any precedent for the rate of change in atmospheric composition that we're causing, and the rates of change in climate that we can expect, as we continue to burn fossil fuels and elevate these greenhouse gas concentrations.

Always interline a contract before signing it, merely to impress the Party of the First Part. The one who puts his signature to Articles of Agreement drawn up by the other fellow is establishing a dangerous precedent.

A precedent embalms a principle.

There is no precedent of a civilian population, displaced by a war that their leadership started and lost, claiming a right to return to territory that they failed to conquer.

To set a precedent, I guess. So that if in the future she ever fell from grace, it would be understood that presidents - even the most despicable - get special treatment.

The child is demanding maintenance payments from me, backdated nearly twenty years, on the grounds that the undead are jointly and severally liable for debts run up by their incarnations. It's a legal precedent established to prevent people from committing suicide temporarily as a way to avoid bankruptcy.

He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression," Paine said. "For if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself."36 Unchecked legislatures, he warned, could be as despotic as unchecked monarchs.

Although parts of the amendment still provide real security for individual freedom today, the wrong done in that 1873 precedent still hampers protections for liberty today.

Come along,' I told the donkey. 'There's a precedent for this.' Manny

That is the beauty of the Common Law, it is a maze and not a motorway.

Tis no shame to follow the better precedent.

Don't use the conduct of a fool as a precedent.

The past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present was itself founded on some past that went before it.

The U.S. actions in Kosovo - carving out an independent state based on ethnicity from within a sovereign nation - provided the precedent for Russia to carve Crimea out of Ukraine.