procedents
Procedents is a rarely used English noun, the plural form of procedent. It refers to things that proceed from a source or antecedent, and it appears primarily in historical, legal, or philosophical texts. The term stems from Latin procedere "to go forward" and entered English through early modern borrowings. In modern usage, procedural or procedural documents are used instead of procedents, and the word is mostly encountered in archival or scholarly contexts rather than contemporary writing.
In law and administration, procedents are sometimes described as antecedent documents, steps, or factors that lead
Because procedents is not widely used today, modern glossaries rarely include it, and many readers will encounter
See also: precedents, antecedents, premises, chain of reasoning, proceedings.