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noun • a representative legal action whose outcome is likely to become a precedent | ||||||||
48% | 11 | Establishing a precedent or precedent | ||||||
noun • an association organized to promote art or science or education verb • set up or lay the groundwork for • advance or set forth in court | ||||||||
32% | 12 | Digression within a court's opinion that does not establish precedent | ||||||
noun • an incidental remark • an opinion voiced by a judge on a point of law not directly bearing on the case in question and therefore not binding | ||||||||
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