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law of the case: a doctrine in legal procedure: an issue esp. of law that has been decided (as by an appeals court) will not be reconsidered in the same case unless compelling circumstances warrant such reconsideration; also: a matter of law considered as settled in a casethe jury instructions were not objected to and thus became the law of the case
Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam-Webster. 1996.
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n.The doctrine that if a court decides an issue of law, the determination will stay the same throughout subsequent trials of the same facts unless a higher court reconsiders the issue and issues a new determination.
The Essential Law Dictionary. — Sphinx Publishing, An imprint of Sourcebooks, Inc. Amy Hackney Blackwell. 2008.
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Once judges have decided a legal question during the conduct of a lawsuit, they are unlikely to change their views and will respond that the ruling is the "law of the case."Category: Small Claims Court & Lawsuits
Nolo’s Plain-English Law Dictionary. Gerald N. Hill, Kathleen Thompson Hill. 2009.
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n. In appellate litigation, the doctrine that the decision in an earlier appeal is binding on the appeals court considering a later one in the same case.
Webster's New World Law Dictionary. Susan Ellis Wild. 2000.
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The principle that if the highest appellate court has determined a legal question and returned the case to the court below for additional proceedings, the question will not be determined differently on a subsequent appeal in the same case where the facts remain the same.
Dictionary from West's Encyclopedia of American Law. 2005.
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The principle that if the highest appellate court has determined a legal question and returned the case to the court below for additional proceedings, the question will not be determined differently on a subsequent appeal in the same case where the facts remain the same.
Short Dictionary of (mostly American) Legal Terms and Abbreviations.
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n.once a judge has decided a legal question during the conduct of a lawsuit, he/she is unlikely to change his/her views and will respond that the ruling is the "law of the case."
Law dictionary. EdwART. 2013.
