Development of the law took place chiefly through precedent based on the reported judgments of the courts, rather than through legislation.
A candidate convention might acquire salience through precedent, explicit agreement, or its own intrinsic properties.
The equilibrium gradually becomes more salient through precedent, until eventually it becomes a convention.
They perpetuate themselves through precedent following, social acceptance, individual habit and association, and traditional transmission from one generation of speakers to another.
This could provide more clarity through precedent and limit the incentives for would-be patent abusers seeking total profits with questionable patents.
The Constitution of the Roman Republic was a set of guidelines and principles passed down mainly through precedent.
The Constitution of the Roman Republic was an unwritten set of guidelines and principles passed down mainly through precedent.
The lawyer went through the precedents.
The dissenters, led by Justice John Paul Stevens, said the majority "blazes through our precedents" in a "dramatic break from our past".
"The majority blazes through our precedents," he wrote, "overruling or disavowing a body of case law" that included seven decisions.
