Task: Class Definition Understanding (ontology: Legal/LKIF_Core_Ontology)

Which of the following definitions best describes 'Precedent'?

A. In law, a the concept or authority is a legal case establishing a principle or rule that a court may need to adopt when deciding subsequent cases with similar issues or facts. The term may also refer to the collective body of case law that a court should consider when interpreting the law. When a the concept establishes an important legal principle, or represents new or changed law on a particular issue, that the concept is often known as a landmark decision.
B. A the concept (Lat. proclamare, to make public by announcement) is an official declaration.
C. A the concept is a document bearing norms or normative statements. By virtue of this definition the norm-as-propositional-attitude is reified as norm-as proposition. In other words, the norm being expressed through the legal source is an expression of the propositional attitude.
D. In law, a the concept or advisory precedent is a precedent that need not be followed under the legal principle of stare decisis, but is nevertheless followed. Sources of the concept include the obiter dicta in the judgment of a court whose judgment would otherwise be binding, and the judgments of courts in other jurisdictions where the facts and/or legal system are similar to the case at hand. If a superior court adopts a the concept, it may become binding in the jurisdiction.

Answer: In law, a the concept or authority is a legal case establishing a principle or rule that a court may need to adopt when deciding subsequent cases with similar issues or facts. The term may also refer to the collective body of case law that a court should consider when interpreting the law. When a the concept establishes an important legal principle, or represents new or changed law on a particular issue, that the concept is often known as a landmark decision.