MANDATE RULE

mandate rule.The doctrine that, after an appellate court has remanded a case to a lower court, the lower court must follow the decision that the appellate court has made in the case, unless new evidence or an intervening change in the law dictates a different result. [Cases: Appeal and Error 1195(1); Federal Courts 950. C.J.S. Appeal and Error § 975.]

[Blacks Law 8th]