Mediation resolved the dispute without setting any legal precedent

Evidence

This irregular procedure of mediation was adopted, no doubt, because it avoided setting any legally binding precedents. The real issue by now was whether or not the Aragonese legal system was going to delineate a boundary to the power of the Inquisition or whether the Inquisition was going to establish that it could operate ultimately untrammeled by any local code or constitution. Arbitration by the governor simply ended the wrangle by having G´arate freed without settling the intractable point of principle. — L. P. Harvey, Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614, 576

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: Mediation as means of avoiding precedent parallels the private arbitration in the diamond trade that keeps disputes out of formal law — supports the theme of extralegal dispute resolution in ‘On Sacrifice’ and related institutional readings.
• XREF: connects to: Adjudication imposes solutions and is not the same as mediation — Henry M. Hart, Jr. and Albert M. Sacks, The Legal Process: Basic Problems in…, 3294; Mediation resolves disputes only through voluntary agreements about future conduct. — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 1171