What is "precedents"

Usage examples of "precedents".

In addition, we should never forget that engaging in assassinations means setting precedents we may not want to set.

We have treated with you, and the Malazan Empire takes such precedents seriously.

He had to produce a victory, make heroes, create precedents that would settle all this tangle, bribe a few key barons with grants that would make them betray their brother lords, and most of all he had to do the deed quickly, trample over custom, shorten the mourning for his royal father no matter how Efanor frowned and cast him anguished looks.

Few favored an outright duumvirate of twins, but several groups called for joint rule by annual alternation, citing various actual and mythical precedents, as a peaceful resolution of the question.

So many flatteries without precedents caused that Julie sent a giggle and elevated the eyes to the sky.

The confidential mood that began more early when both admitted the doubts that they had had on his respective talents, lead them to a calm privacy that, in the case of Zack, did not have precedents and was therapeutic.

A declaration without precedents as that one in mouth of an actress turned to Rachel a fresh air whiff for Zack.

One not deigned reason why he finished doing to him and by the weakness without precedents that urged it to return to its side and to suplicar to him that it pardoned it.

On such an afternoon some score of members of the High Court of Chancery bar ought to be--as here they are--mistily engaged in one of the ten thousand stages of an endless cause, tripping one another up on slippery precedents, groping knee-deep in technicalities, running their goat-hair and horsehair warded heads against walls of words and making a pretence of equity with serious faces, as players might.

Is Richard a monster in all this, or would Chancery be found rich in such precedents too if they could be got for citation from the Recording Angel?