(chiefly, _, UK, Australia, Canada, Commonwealth, law) A reported decision which has come to be regarded as settling the law of the question involved.
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UK and Irish slang — Cockney, Scouse, Geordie, Yorkshire, Glaswegian, Brummie, Welsh, West Country, plus Irish English. Centuries of regional dialects feeding into modern British and Irish street talk.
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