Sentence examples for distinguished precedents from inspiring English sources
Through his research, he has learned that the noise-bedevilled artist has distinguished precedents.
There are some distinguished precedents for Tessa Hadley's Clever Girl, a novel about a woman's life told in 10 chapters, three of which were published as short stories in the New Yorker.
It is often argued that reasoning by analogy and distinguishing precedents are mirror images of each other: given the facts of two cases, the question is whether there is a good reason for treating them differently (e.g. Eisenberg 1988, 87).
Justice Antonin Scalia came to the defense of radicals from another era in an apparent effort to distinguish Supreme Court precedents protecting some forms of dissent and advocacy during the cold war.
May a later court avoid the result of the precedent by pointing to any general factual difference between the cases (e.g. this is real property rather than personal property, this is an implied rather than an express trust), and distinguish the precedent by stating a narrower ratio?
The quality of legal argument was high; Bacon was a "skillful, subtle intelect" capable of distinguishing the precedent brought up by Coke, while Doddridge, a member of the Society of Antiquaries, knew the records even better than Coke did.
A precedent cannot be distinguished on grounds that would, in substance, imply that the precedent was wrongly decided: it must be treated as correctly decided.
Mr. Edwards's lawyers say his conviction would set a dangerous precedent, leaving it unclear when private donations are distinguished from campaign contributions.
A case may be distinguished, but only if that distinction does not imply that the precedent was wrongly decided.
The "root" is the historical precedent and evidence provided by the deeds of the ancient sage kings, moral exemplars who reliably distinguished right from wrong correctly and whose way we thus seek to follow.
