This week's theme: terms from law. stare decisis (STAYR-ee di-SY-sis) noun
The legal principle of following precedents in deciding a case, the idea that future decisions of a court should follow the example set by the prior decisions. [Latin for "let the decision stand".] -Anu Garg (words at wordsmith.org) "'The court (and, I think, the country) loses when important precedent is overruled without good reason, and there is no justification for departure from our usual rule of stare decisis here,' Justice David H. Souter wrote." Robert Barnes; 5-4 Supreme Court Weakens Curbs on Pre-Election TV Ads; Washington Post; Jun 26, 2007. Sponsored by: Earn Professional Certificates 100% ONLINE from Villanova University in Project Management, Six Sigma, IS Security, HR & more. http://VillanovaU.com/WS Heard the fairy tale of Beeping Sleauty? Get this and 42 more, spoonerized by Col. Stoopnagle. A gerfect pift for wordlovers: http://StoneandScott.com Always find the right word with the Visual Thesaurus. Wordsmith readers save 10%. Try it free! http://www.visualthesaurus.com/?ad=aw&code=m7r ........................................................................... Men hate those to whom they have to lie. -Victor Hugo, poet, novelist, and dramatist (1802-1885) Looking for word/quotation archives: http://wordsmith.org/awad/archives.html Unsubscribe, change address, etc: http://wordsmith.org/awad/subscriber.html Pronunciation: http://wordsmith.org/words/stare_decisis.wav http://wordsmith.org/words/stare_decisis.ram Permalink: http://wordsmith.org/words/stare_decisis.html