LGLS 1901 Lecture 2: 09/01/16
29 Nov 2016
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Known as king"s courts (judges were appointed by the king. Made in response of courts of law being too rigid. Remedies: specific performance (requires the party to carry out an action, injunctions (opposite of specific performance, a stop; you can"t do this. ex) a restraining order)), rescission (to take something back ex. ) cancel an agreement)) Stare decisis- to stand on decided cases; is judge made law; means to follow. Precedent; applies to judge-made law aka common law. Cases are now published in national and regional reporters (books that compile specific. Each decision becomes a legal precedent (landmark decision); lower courts must. If a judge gets a case that involves some sort of dispute, the judge must ask herself follow it cases) What have other judges done in the past when they have been confronted with the exact same issue? meaning they cannot keep going back and forth after creating precedent.
