Decisional law refers to the set of rules and principles created by judges when they make legal decisions on specific cases. It helps guide future similar cases, forming a precedent or standard for how similar cases should be decided.
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Lower Court Correctly Denied Fees Under Prompt Payment Statute Based
On Decisional Law Under Similar Statutory Provision
This can be contrasted with common law systems whose intellectual framework comes from judge -
made decisional law which gives precedential authority to prior court decisions on the principle that it is unfair to treat similar facts differently on different occasions.
provision, have
by decisional law recognized the validity of criminal libel prosecutions.
There are still many important issues that have not been addressed by any court, and what
little decisional law exists could be distinguished or construed narrowly or broadly.
Noting Judge Rand's opinion in his own, Judge Gallipoli respectfully disagreed with Judge Rand's interpretation of
the decisional law in this state and found that a claim existed for these types of behaviors.