... and there is precedent for it... 
Rafael Sabatini 「Scaramouche」
...Sapt would tell him bluntly that Rudolf did this or that, set this precedent or that, laid down this or the other policy, and that the king could do no better than follow in Rudolf’s steps...
Anthony Hope 「Rupert of Hentzau」
...The Makololo quoted this precedent when speaking of the Mambari, and said that they, as the present masters of the country, had as good a right to expel them as Santuru...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
...Wolowski, "is a precedent in favor of this right...
P. J. Proudhon 「What is Property?」
...Let us hope that this legislative precedent will not be fruitless for the cause of equality...
P. J. Proudhon 「What is Property?」
...Paul's, it would not have been in accordance with precedent...
William Benham 「Old St. Paul's Cathedral」
...These starshave been closely observed by astronomers during the past forty years,with the result that their motions have appeared most perplexing, andcomplicated beyond precedent...
Thomas Orchard 「The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost'」
...The companies drafted to the penal settlements were not composed of the best material, and the pair had good precedent for the course they were about to take...
Marcus Clarke 「For the Term of His Natural Life」
...It is very true of the Chinaman that precedent determines his action...
George Ernest Morrison 「An Australian in China」
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