Reply. Yes, the Arabs did reject the 1947 Partition Plan. The Jews accepted it, even though it meant that Jerusalem would be an international city administered by the United Nations and the three little triangles assigned to the state would be indefensible in attack.
As the term a priori applies to the law, it refers to deductive reasoning, or an idea that is taken as a given. An a priori assumption may be brought out in a legal complaint, motion, or even at trial, as one partyâs line of reasoning stems from something that has happened in the past. For example:
Definition. Part of common law, consisting of judgments given by higher (appellate) courts in interpreting the statutes (or the provisions of a constitution) applicable in cases brought before them. Called precedents, they are binding on all courts (within the same jurisdiction) to be followed as the law in similar cases. Over time, these precedents are recognized, affirmed, and enforced by the subsequent court decisions, thus continually expanding the common law.