Vocabulary : Precedency to Precellent
Precedency : The act or state of preceding or going before in order of time; priority; as, one event has precedence of another. ;; The act or state of going or being before in rank or dignity, or the place of honor; right to a more honorable place; superior rank; as, barons have precedence of commoners.Precedent : Going before; anterior; preceding; antecedent; as, precedent services. ;; Something done or said that may serve as an example to authorize a subsequent act of the same kind; an authoritative example. ;; A preceding circumstance or condition; an antecedent; hence, a prognostic; a token; a sign. ;; A rough draught of a writing which precedes a finished copy. ;; A judicial decision which serves as a rule for future determinations in similar or analogous cases; an authority to be followed in courts of justice; forms of proceeding to be followed in similar cases.
Precedented : Having a precedent; authorized or sanctioned by an example of a like kind.
Precedential : Of the nature of a precedent; having force as an example for imitation; as, precedential transactions.
Precedently : Beforehand; antecedently.
