Circumstances And Codes

Case law is the set of past rulings by judges and comparable tribunals, and that meet their respective jurisdictions’ rules for formality to be cited as precedent These interpretations are distinguished from statutory law that are the statutes and codes enacted by legislative bodies; regulatory law which are laws established by executive branch agencies primarily based on statutes. If the court believes that developments or trends in legal reasoning render the precedent unhelpful, and wishes to evade it and help the law evolve, it may both hold that the precedent is inconsistent with subsequent authority, or that it should be …