PRECEDE PRECEDENT
Channel: PRESIDENT ANDREW CONBOY
Date: 14/10/2023

PRECEDE - vb. 1. To go before in rank, dignity, or importance; to outrank or take precedence over. 2. To be or go before in arrangment or sequence. 3. To go before in order of time; to occur earlier than. 4. to preface or introduce; supply with a prelude or preface. 5. To go or walk before someone else; to go somewhere before another person.

PRECEDENCE - n. (16c) 1. The order or priority in place or time observed by or for persons of different statuses (such as political dignitaries) on the basis of rank during cermonial events. - Also termed diplomatic precedence. 2. Generally, the quality, state, or condition of going before something else according to the system of priorities. 3. Parliamentary law. The ranked priority that determines whether a motion is in order while another motion is pending, or whter a pending motion yields to another motion. 4. Parliamentary law. The priority in which a member is entitled to the floor. - Also termed precedence in recongnition; preference in being recognized. 5. The order in which persons may claim the right to administer an intestate's estate. The traditional order is (1) surviving spouse (2) next of kin, (3) creditors, and (4) public administrator.
PRECEDENT - n. (16c) 1. Something of the same type that has occured or existed before. 2. An action or official decision that can be used as support for later actions or decisions; esp., a decided case that furnishes a basis for determining later cases involving similar facts or issues. SEE STARE DECSIS.