The Legal Word
- Rescind a contract: The unwinding or unmaking of an agreement or transaction.
- Precedent - A binding previous judgement. It is a starting point and a guide for judges to base further judgement. It is flexible.
- Stare Decisis - let it stand. Similar or same decisions of the past will absolutely bind a court. But it is still flexible. In reality it is not absolutely binding. The court begins its analysis based on cases of the past and reconcile their opinion today.
- Holding
- Dicta
Words used in questions and statements
- Conjunctive - all elements of a statement must be satisfied
- Disjunctive - Only one element of a statement needs to be satisfied.
- Compare: Find similarities
- Contrast: Find differences
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