Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
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Persuasive authority
authority that carries some weight but is not binding on a court. "it may be well to call attention to the fact that the word 'authority' is used by lawyers in at least two senses, one abstract and the other concrete. The word [in its concrete sense] refer[s] to the book or other repository to which one resorts to find propositions of law, and sometimes the word is used in an even narrower sense to mean reported cases. In its abstract sense, however, 'authority' is substantially equivalent to 'influence' or 'power,' and in this sense 'authority' may be divided into two grades, in that the force of a statement of law is either imperative (that is to say, absolutely binding upon the courts) or simply persuasive. The use of the terms 'primary' and 'secondary' authority, as applied in the concrete sense, must not be confused with the use of the terms 'impera
persuasive authority
See AUTHORITY (4).