Mandatory Authority
MANDATORY AUTHORITY
Precedents, in the form of prior decisions by a higher court of the same state on point, statutes, or other sources of law that must be considered by a judge in the determination of a legal controversy.
Mandatory authority is synonymous with binding authority.
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