| Whereas the Stewart children had few pictorial precedents on the matter of negative exempla, a bounty of pictures represented choices being made. |
| There were precedents in most agrarian societies for wage labor and tenantry. |
| Law is based on judge-made precedents, authoritative legal texts, and legislation. |
| The courts have also looked to the logical implications and extensions of their prior precedents in deciding whether a right is fundamental. |
| To make a prediction, one of the best ways is to turn to precedents according to the principle of stare decisis. |
| The shift to decompositional conceptions of analysis was not without precedents, however. |
