Definition of Precedent

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Precedent

Going before; anterior; preceding; antecedent; as, precedent services.

Something done or said that may serve as an example to authorize a subsequent act of the same kind; an authoritative example.

A preceding circumstance or condition; an antecedent; hence, a prognostic; a token; a sign.

A rough draught of a writing which precedes a finished copy.

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.

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Precedent Quotations

I walk on untrodden ground. There is scarcely any part of my conduct which may not hereafter be drawn into precedent.
George Washington

He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from opposition; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach himself.
Thomas Paine

A precedent embalms a principle.
Benjamin Disraeli

Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
Will Durant

I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature; and that man will be myself.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

This is going right to the police. So, it's a very dangerous precedent.
Floyd Abrams

Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure.
Sallust

When you raise issues with the President, try to come away with both that decision and also a precedent. Pose issues so as to evoke broader policy guidance. This can help to answer a range of similar issues likely to arise later.
Donald Rumsfeld

I have an almost complete disregard of precedent, and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I go for anything new that might improve the past.
Clara Barton

With my daughter, who at the time was one, my domestic life needed to take more precedent and really with my own self I needed to develop quite a bit more. So that put Blur down the list of priorities quite a lot by the time I came to thinking about it.
Graham Coxon

Precedent Translations

precedent in Spanish is precedente

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