binding precedent

基本解释

Once a hierarchy of binding precedent has been established a certain amount of rigidity is introduced into the law.
一旦有约束力的判例的等级制度形成，法律就会带有某种程度的刚性。
Towards the end of the seventeenth century criticism of equity as being uncertain intensified and from that time onward equity also moved towards a system of binding precedent.
将近十七世纪末期的时候，衡平法被指常常无端拓展，从此以后衡平法也开始转向一种拘束性先例的体系。
After descibing practical rules of application in different courts, it emphases that the binding part in a precedent actually is ratio decidendi and discusses the method of distincting it.
遵循先例的规则及哲学基础。在介绍了遵循先例原则在不同法院的操作规则后，着重指出先例中具有法律效力的乃是判决理由，并讨论了如何识别判决中的判决理由。

The Junger decision is not a binding precedent in the Goldstein case, which goes on next week.
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But last week, an appeals court upheld the ruling on new grounds that didn't set such a binding precedent.
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