Legal Articles Unsettling the “Settled Law”: “Reference” as a progressive Judicial device January 14, 2019 by Dushyant Mainali | Leave a Comment Dushyant Mainali “Settled law” is the most used term in legal briefs, court room arguments and finally in the text of the Judgments in almost all the functional legal-judicial systems in the world. The term comes from a judicial concept adopted from common law. The apposite term in this connotation is “stare decisis” in Latin […] Read more » "Black-letter law" "Settled law" progressive Judicial device