Govt 404 certification - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Statutes laws passed by a legislature precedent prior decisions of the same court or a higher court that a judge must follow stare decisis "stand by the thing decided" related to the concept of precedent; rule that a court should apply the same legal principle to the same set of facts and apply it to later cases that are similar common law law found in the decisions of the courts rather than statutes; judge made law constitutions docs that set out the basic principles and general laws...