stare decisis

基本解释

Since the law never hesitates to borrow wisdom from other disciplines, Stevenson's quote is an apt summation of the doctrine of Stare Decisis.
法律从来都很愿意向其他的学科汲取智慧，史蒂文森的话是对遵循先例的一种概括。
As a basic institution of English law, the doctrine of stare decisis goes a long way before coming into being gradually depending on judges' convention and experience of decision.
作为英国法的一项基本制度，遵循先例原则的最终确立经历了一个漫长的发展过程，它依赖英国法官裁判惯例和裁判经验逐渐形成。
The causes of dissatisfaction which lead to attacks upon stare decisis are in our technique of applying standards and in the ideal element of law which is decisive in applying standards.
导致对遵循先例原则的不满的原因在于，我们的技术适用标准和在适用标准中起决定作用的法律的理念要素。

Conservative jurists in particular tend to defer to the principle of stare decisis, or established precedent.
ECONOMIST: The Supreme Court
He does not believe in stare decisis period.
NEWYORKER: Partners
Wikipedians debate their behavior and decisions, and the losers in the debate go along with decisions even though they disagree with the outcome, inventing their own laws and invoking their own version of stare decisis.
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遵循先例
Although equity was convenient, flexible and with skill and ease while dealing a case, although it accomplished its mission excellently and, further, promoted the development of the whole English law, although it could offer the remedies which were variously and with more pertinences, it placed a "sub-rule" position all the time. Even it defeated common law in a face-to-face controversy in 1615, it could not replace common law anyway, and instead, it absorbed the "stare decisis" principle from common law and to bea part of English case law at last.
最后分析了衡平法的特点，作用以及地位，指出衡平法尽管具有简便和灵活的特性，在应对新型案件的场合显得游刃有余，尽管在出色地完成了补普通法之不足的历史使命的基础上还通过自身的发展推进了整个英国法的发展，尽管拥有相对普通法来说更多样且更具针对性的救济方式，更好地满足了人们的救济需求，但是却始终处于“从规则”的地位，就算在1615年与普通法的正面交锋中取得了胜利，却还是无法取普通法而代之，反而逐渐吸收了普通法的遵循先例原则，最终成为了英国判例法的一部分。