Under Common Law, If a Royal Judge Successfully Applied a Ruling

question 15

Multiple Choice

Under common law, if a royal judge successfully applied a ruling in a number of different cases and published that ruling in order that other judges could apply the ruling in their subsequent decisions, the ruling would become ______.​

• A) ​a precedent
• B) ​a royal order
• C) ​statutory law
• D) ​a key decision

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Definitions:

P-value

In statistical hypothesis testing, the probability of obtaining test results at least as extreme as the results actually observed, under the assumption that the null hypothesis is correct.

Hypotheses

Proposed explanations or predictions that can be tested through research and experimentation.

Null Hypotheses

A hypothesis that suggests no significant difference or effect, typically representing a default or initial assumption for statistical testing.

Alternative Hypotheses

The hypothesis that suggests there is a statistically significant difference between two or more sets of data, contrasted against the null hypothesis.