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It's totally without precedent for the suspect's attorney to be the true culprit.
Thomas Paine once observed that he that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression, for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
Constitutional conventions are generally unwritten rules based on custom and precedent.
The administration doesn't want to give the teacher a leave of absence because it could set a precedent that they may not want to follow in the future.
In both which calculations 'tis obvious to observe, that always that part of the Ray towards which the refraction is made has the end of the orbicular pulse precedent to that of the other side.
So that upon the whole, we shall find that the reason of the Phænomena seems to depend upon the obliquity of the orbicular pulse, to the Lines of Radiation, and in particular, that the Ray cd which constitutes the Scarlet has its inner parts, namely those which are next to the middle of the luminous body, precedent to the outermost which are contiguous to the dark and unradiating skie.
And that the Ray ef which gives a Blue, has its outward part, namely, that which is contiguous to the dark side precedent to the pulse from the innermost, which borders on the bright area of the luminous body.
The second hypothesis is, that the present state of things has had only a limited duration; and that, at some period in the past, a condition of the world, essentially similar to that which we now know, came into existence, without any precedent condition from which it could have naturally proceeded.
These historical parallels pleased Harry's fancy until he recollected that he was himself only a son of the people, and not of noble descent, so that they really did not bear upon his case, and he could find not one single precedent in the whole history parallel with himself.
On the other hand-to stray for a moment beyond the range of Teutonic and even of Aryan precedent-we read that the ancient Egyptians forestalled the great device of constitutional monarchy, that their priests, in a yearly discourse, dutifully attributed all the good that was done in the land to the King personally and all the evil to his bad counsellors(31).
I speak not of acts of violence or murder, or of processes which,41 though clothed under legal form, were without precedent in our history.
The life and soul of English law has ever been precedent; we have always held that whatever our fathers once did their sons have a right to do again.
Throughout his reign he took care to do nothing except in outward and regular legal form, nothing for which he could not shelter himself under the sanction either of precedent or of written Law.
It created a precedent for the practical guidance of future Ministers and future Parliaments, but it neither changed the Law nor declared it.
It is simply another application of the Englishman’s love of precedent.
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