But when it comes to financial assets, physical goods or property, thousands of years of tradition and many hundreds of years of legal precedent provide a basis on which to proceed in even the most esoteric cases.
Lehman Brothers was collapsing, but the Bear Stearns precedent provided assurance that the government would not take the risks to the financial system inherent in letting a big bank fail.
World War II broke out shortly after Minton joined the court, creating a flood of cases in which legal precedent provided little guidance, including challenges to wartime measures, selective service laws, price controls, rationing and civil liberties.
There is an interesting precedent provided by the analysis of Cernunnos/XLF-deficient mice (Vera et al, 2013).
House rules and precedents provide substantial guidance on how a House member can and cannot refer to the president while speaking on the floor, and the guidelines state that it has been found impermissible to call the president a liar.
Collectively, these precedents provide further support for a critical role for CLR01 interactions with lysine or arginine residues in the effects we observe on seminal amyloid peptides.
There is international historical precedent for providing refugee relief to children fleeing violence and conflict in their homelands.
The Bloomberg administration did not want to set a precedent by providing incentives for a company to move out of Downtown Brooklyn, even to beleaguered Lower Manhattan.
Trastuzumab (Herceptin; F. Hoffmann-La Roche, Basel, Switzerland), an anti-HER2 monoclonal antibody (MAb), was one of the first rationally developed and clinically available targeted agents, setting the precedent for providing specific therapy for HER-dysregulated cancer.
