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Ratio decidendi
The legal, moral, political, and social principles used by a court to compose the "rationale" or ratio decidendi of a particular judgment. Unlike obiter dicta, the principles of judgment for radio decendi stand as potentially binding precedent, through the principle of stare decisis.
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