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:
Case law, also known as precedent or common law, is the body of prior judicial decisions that guide judges deciding issues before them. Depending on the relationship between the deciding court and the precedent, case law may be binding or merely persuasive.