You have the right to appeal your decision to the Supreme Court, or the Superior Court for a jury trial de novo if I make an error of law or if you don't agree with my decision.†
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Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes, 2007
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One luckless wight contrived to upset the gravy; and then gravy had to be got up de novo, with due care and formality, Aunt Chloe watching and stirring with dogged precision, answering shortly, to all suggestions of haste, that she "warn't a going to have raw gravy on the table, to help nobody's catchings."†
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Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin, 1852
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Among this group the act is viewed as comprehensible and consistent with the rest of the cultural pattern.... If this is true, it follows that the individual who in particular situations, usually of distress, wishes to convey information about his difficulties to others, does not have to invent a communicational medium de novo.... The individual within the "attempted suicide subculture" can perform an act which carries a preformed meaning; all he is required to do is invoke it.†
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Malcolm Gladwell, The Tipping Point, 2000