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    The document discusses the legal doctrine of precedent, including its definition as a prior decision that guides subsequent judicial rulings. It notes that precedent provides primary sources of law and comes in binding, persuasive, original, and declaratory forms. The importance and advantages of precedent are that it provides certainty, consistency, and fairness in the legal system. However, precedent also has disadvantages in potentially hindering development of the law.

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    The document discusses the legal doctrine of precedent, including its definition as a prior decision that guides subsequent judicial rulings. It notes that precedent provides primary sources of law and comes in binding, persuasive, original, and declaratory forms. The importance and advantages of precedent are that it provides certainty, consistency, and fairness in the legal system. However, precedent also has disadvantages in potentially hindering development of the law.

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    LEGAL

    RESEARCH ON
    THE DOCTRINE
    OF PRECEDENT
    PRESENTED BY: JUAN P. GABON
    BLOCK 1-A
     In almost all the legal systems. Judges take guidence
    from the previos decisions on the specific point and rely.
     Such decisions are published and compiled in Reports.
    These reports are considered to be a valuable part of
    legal literature.
     Such decisions are called “ JUDICIAL PRECEDENT”
    or “PRECEDENT” and these precedents form the
    primary source of law in these days.
    DEFINITION
     Black’s Law Dictionary

     Judicial precedent or Oxford Dictionary


    KINDS OF PRECEDENTS
     Binding Precedent

     Pursuasive Precedent

     Original Precedent

     Declaratory Precedent
     BINDING PRECEDENTS also known as
    AUTHORITATIVE PRECEDENT

    Two types of AUTHORITATIVE PRECEDENT

    1. Absolute 2. Conditional
    PURSUASIVE PRECEDENT
    ORIGINAL PRECEDENTS
    DECLARATORY PRECEDENTS
    IMPORTANCE
    OF
    PRECEDENT
    ADVANTAGES OF
    JUDICIAL
    PRECEDENT
    DISADVANTAGES
    OF PRECEDENT

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