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- Precedent - a. - Going before; anterior; preceding; antecedent; as, precedent services.
- Precedent - n. - Something done or said that may serve as an example to authorize a subsequent act of the same kind; an authoritative example.
- Precedent - n. - A preceding circumstance or condition; an antecedent; hence, a prognostic; a token; a sign.
- Precedent - n. - A rough draught of a writing which precedes a finished copy.
- Precedent - n. - A judicial decision which serves as a rule for future determinations in similar or analogous cases; an authority to be followed in courts of justice; forms of proceeding to be followed in similar cases.
- Precedented - a. - Having a precedent; authorized or sanctioned by an example of a like kind.
- Precedential - a. - Of the nature of a precedent; having force as an example for imitation; as, precedential transactions.
- Precedently - adv. - Beforehand; antecedently.
- Example - v. t. - To set an example for; to give a precedent for; to exemplify; to give an instance of; to instance.
- Particular - a. - Containing a part only; limited; as, a particular estate, or one precedent to an estate in remainder.
- Unprecedented - a. - Having no precedent or example; not preceded by a like case; not having the authority of prior example; novel; new; unexampled.
- Precedent - a. - Going before; anterior; preceding; antecedent; as, precedent services.