David Kastrup wrote: [...] > is already the appellate court IIRC, so it should set a precendence.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Court_of_Cassation_(France) "Unlike common-law jurisdictions, there is no doctrine of binding precedent (stare decisis) in France. Therefore, previous decisions of higher courts like the Supreme Court do not bind lower courts in the same hierarchy, though they are often followed and have persuasive value. Instead, the French legal system subscribes to the legal doctrine of jurisprudence constante ... " http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jurisprudence_constante "Jurisprudence constante is a legal doctrine according to which a long series of previous decisions applying a particular rule of law is very important and may be determinative in subsequent cases. Jurisprudence constante is a legal doctrine recognized in most civil law jurisdictions, such as, for example, in the civil law of Louisiana. The rule of law applied in the Jurisprudence constante directly compares with stare decisis. But the Louisiana Supreme Court notes the principal difference between the two legal doctrines: a single court decision can provide sufficient foundation for stare decisis, however, "a series of adjudicated cases, all in accord, form the basis for jurisprudence constante." " regards, alexander. -- http://gng.z505.com/index.htm (GNG is a derecursive recursive derecursion which pwns GNU since it can be infinitely looped as GNGNGNGNG...NGNGNG... and can be said backwards too, whereas GNU cannot.) _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
