Cases
Precedents and cases are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Precedents" instead a noun "Cases".
Precedents
Cases and precedents are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Cases" instead a noun "Precedents".
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- But she then cites precedents for breaking the PD to fix past breaches and in cases of humanitarian crises (something she's called out the Federation for not doing in the past), and instead gives the Alliance some tricks to defeat cloaking devices and even the odds.
Source: Fanfic / The Wrong Reflection -
Slant is feared throughout the drawing rooms of the rich and powerful in Ankh-Morpork not because he's a zombie but because he's been practicing law for so long that he set most of the precedents cited in contemporary cases.
Source: Occult Law Firm -
To be fair, there are several precedents in the UK (at least one case where someone was hanged, taken down as dead, and they weren't quite dead and got released, as well as a few other cases where the trap door repeatedly refused to spring).
Source: Series / Torchwood: Miracle Day
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