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Stare Decisis.

Stare decisis: to stand by things decided.

Common-law principle · public domain

Stare Decisis., Quorum

To stand by what was decided.

Stare decisis is the common-law principle that courts follow precedent: today's decisions stand on yesterday's. It is what makes law predictable, what lets a citizen know where they stand before they act.

Why a doctrine earns a design.

This is the most specialised vocabulary in the catalogue, and that is the point. The Courts lens is where Quorum trusts its audience with the real terms of art. Stare decisis is law's memory, and memory is worth defending.

How we set it.

Archivo Narrow for "STARE," Fraunces italic for "Decisis." The mixed setting gives the Latin phrase a contemporary, editorial frame.