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principle of law
(redirected from legal principle)

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See: stare decisis


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Contained in those sentences would be the legal principle at work in the case.
PCHR responded by providing evidence for solicitors in the UK to pursue the case in UK courts pursuant to its legal principle of universal jurisdiction over war crimes.
Rather, he said, states may defer to a more elementary legal principle known as "comity," in which states are expected to recognize the legal acts of other states as long as they are not in violation of superior laws.
 
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