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Is stare decisis and precedent both same in legal context? Thanks.

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Question added by Gayasuddin Mohammed , Advocate , Practicing Law before High Court at Hyderabad
Date Posted: 2016/07/31
Gayasuddin Mohammed
by Gayasuddin Mohammed , Advocate , Practicing Law before High Court at Hyderabad

Yes they are the same. It is a latin term which was first coined in the 1782 by some lord(I don't remember now) of England of looking at the old Judgment to apply the same in the current case in hand. Thanks.

Ahmed Babikir  Elshiekh Ahmed
by Ahmed Babikir Elshiekh Ahmed , Legal Adviser , Ministry of Interior

stare decisis is a principle applied in common law which means the lower court must follow the upper courts decisions, especially the court of appeal or the high court. It is actually a Latin principle which means let the decision stand. The precedents is only an interpretation to that principle , so , they are the same in the legal language.

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