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Under common law, if a royal judge successfully applied a ruling in a number of different cases and published that ruling in order that other judges could apply the ruling in their subsequent decisions, the ruling would become​______.

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Precedent

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The previous legal cases that are either persuasive or binding while making decisions in subsequent cases with similar facts is called precedent. The legal decision in Brown v. Boad of Education guiding about future laws about desegregation is an example of precedent. A precedent can be applied, distinguished or overruled. All decisions of the court are precedent but some of them become landmark or leading cases., such cases are cited too often. Judges are bound by the principle of Stare decisis.

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