Marietta Dental Professionals 550 Franklin Rd SE Ste B Marietta, GA 30067 Marietta Dental Professionals 550 Franklin Rd SE Ste B Marietta, GA 30067 2.4 miles away
By Tom Head. Definition: Stare decisis (Latin: stand by the decision) is a legal phrase referring to the obligation of courts to honor past precedents. There are essentially two types of stare decisis. One is the obligation that trial courts have to honor the precedents of higher courts. A local trial court in Mississippi cannot legally convict a person for flag desecration, for example, because a higher court--the U.S.
4. to stare at: to stare a person up and down. 5. to effect or have a certain effect on by staring. 6. stare down, to intimidate or discomfit with a stare. n. 7. a staring gaze; a fixed look with the eyes wide open. Idioms: stare one in the face, to be urgent or impending, as a deadline. [before 900; Middle English; Old English starian, c. Middle Low German staren, Old High German starÄn, Old Norse stara; akin to stark] starâ²er, n. starâ²ingâ¢ly, adv. stare