Volume I · The House of Precedent

An identity for Preceda.

Intelligent legal analysis, built for India. Quiet luxury, editorial rigour, and the gravity of the bench, expressed in a single, coherent design language.

IssueNo. 01 / MMXXVI
AudienceSenior counsel · Chambers · In-house
DirectionEditorial law journal × quiet luxury
SectionsI Brand · II Marketing · III App · IV Components
I.i — The Mark

An editorial signature, with the seal in reserve.

The live Preceda mark is an editorial wordmark. The seal, monogram, and formal wordmark remain supporting devices for archival moments, compact lockups, and printed matter.

Preceda
Primary
Masthead, app chrome, footer
Preceda
Compact
Favicons, app tab, small lockups
Seal device
Watermark, archival stamp, invitation mark
Preceda
Formal
Printed matter, legal copy, cabinet references
Preceda
Preceda
Preceda
The editorial wordmark is the live mark in use across this page and on preceda.ai. The monogram and seal remain supporting devices, not the primary signature.
I.ii — Typography

Two voices. One library.

A serif for argument and a monospace for evidence. The display face carries the case; the mono carries the receipts.

FrauncesVoice · Regular · Italic
Aa
Aa
Sushila Aggarwal v.
State of NCT of Delhi

A five-judge bench held that anticipatory bail need not ordinarily be curtailed by time and should instead bend to the facts before the court.

JetBrains MonoEvidence · Citation · Data
Aa
01
// verified citation
(2020) 5 SCC 1
↳ followed · 84 subsequent
↳ distinguished · 17
↳ overruled · 0
// authority
pagerank · 0.948
still good law · ✓
Display XLKnow the bench.148 / -0.02em / Fraunces
Display LEvery citation verified.96 / -0.015em / Fraunces
Display MIntelligence, not search.64 / -0.012em / Fraunces
HeadingCitation authority chain28 / -0.008em / Fraunces
SubheadAn italic whisper carries the subtitle.19 / italic / Source Serif 4
BodyA paragraph set like a law journal: generous leading, disciplined colour, and more clauses than bullets.17 / 1.62 / Source Serif 4
Mono(2020) 5 SCC 1 · followed · 84 · pagerank 0.94813 / -0.01em / JetBrains Mono
I.iii — Palette

Paper, ink, and a single drop of oxblood.

The palette reads like a law journal: oyster cream paper, warm black ink, and one saturated accent used sparingly for treatment, emphasis, and the house brand.

Paper · primary surface
Oyster
#F4EFE6
Used for 85% of the system
Paper · deep
Deckle
#EBE4D5
Card + secondary surfaces
Type · primary
Ink
#13110E
Warm near-black, not pure
Type · body
Soft Ink
#2A2520
Type · secondary
Mute
#5C5348
Type · tertiary
Faint
#8A7F6F
Hairlines
Rule
#C9BFA9
Lifted surface
Wash
#FAF6EC
Accent · house
Oxblood
#7A1E1B
Used for ≤5% of any layout
Semantic · affirmative
Sage
#3F5B3D
Followed, good law
Semantic · caution
Ember
#8A6A1C
Distinguished, limitation
I.iv — Voice

Counsel, not customer service.

Preceda speaks the way a senior partner writes a memo: precise, declarative, unhurried. No exclamation marks. No magic.

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Every citation verified.
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Know your bench.
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Section II · The Public Face · preceda.ai
Early Access · Invite Only
IntelligenceResearchDraftingChambers
Volume
I · MMXXVI
Jurisdiction
India · Primary
Corpus
3,860,000 cases
Standing
Early access, invite only

The bench,
read before
you enter it.

Preceda is an intelligence layer for Indian litigation. It verifies every citation, traces every authority, profiles your judge, and returns a court-ready filing in an editorial register instead of a generic dashboard gloss.

Static showcase study. The marketing treatments and app panels below are concept renderings translated from the handoff bundle, not live product telemetry.

Citations VerifiedAuthority TracedCourt-Ready
Used at boutique chambers in Delhi, Bombay,
Bengaluru & Chennai.
II.i — The Four Pillars
§ iPillar

Citation Intelligence

Every citation traced, classified, and scored. Followed. Distinguished. Overruled. You see the full authority chain before you cite.

§ iiPillar

Bench Intelligence

Bail grant rates. Citation preferences. Disposition tempo. A behavioural dossier for every sitting judge.

§ iiiPillar

Chamber Agent

Drafts bail applications, writs, appeals, and legal notices that are court-ready instead of chat-export ready.

§ ivPillar

Counsel Profiles

Profile the opposing counsel across advocates, courts, and authority patterns before the first conference.

II.ii — Evidence

Three times the accuracy of any generic model.

The design language leans on a legal-journal proofing system: large numerals, thin rules, and a prose rhythm that feels evaluated rather than advertised.

34.8%
Citation resolution accuracy
Preceda openlaw-embedder-v6
11.6%
Best generic model
BGE-base-en-v1.5
1.5%
Prior Indian legal model
InLegalBERT
Citation resolution
34.8%
Authority chain
34.8%
Semantic similarity
72.5%
Jurisdiction classification
100%
Generic baseline
26.2%
InLegalBERT
12.2%
Our citation resolution is better than the best generic model and 23× better than the legacy legal baseline.
modelopenlaw-embedder-v6
baseBAAI/bge-base-en-v1.5 · LoRA
params1.59% adapted
dimension768 · ONNX-ready
latency< 500ms p95
II.iii — The Corpus

A library of 1.99M
Indian judgments.
Every one of them read.

The Supreme Court, twenty-one High Courts, statutes, bylaws, and cross-border authorities are treated as a single citation graph rather than disconnected silos.

1.99M
Indian judgments
SC + 21 High Courts
22K+
Judges profiled
Behavioural analytics
36K+
Advocates indexed
Authority and outcome patterns
103K
Citation pairs verified
Benchmark and training set
Coverage
Supreme Court of India · Delhi · Bombay · Madras · Calcutta · Allahabad · Karnataka · Kerala · Gujarat · Punjab & Haryana · Rajasthan · Patna · Telangana · Andhra Pradesh · Himachal Pradesh · Orissa · Chhattisgarh · Gauhati · Jammu & Kashmir · Uttarakhand.
It reads every footnote in Sibbia, every order that has cited it since, and hands you back a two-page dossier before the ten o'clock conference. This is the associate I could never hire.
Senior Advocate, Supreme Court of India
II.iv — Standing

Three standings. One library.

Priced for the way litigation teams actually work: the lone practitioner, the boutique chamber, and the institution that wants a private reading room.

The solo practitioner
Junior
₹ 2,400
per month
  • §Unlimited search
  • §200 verified citations / mo
  • §Judge intelligence
  • §Personal matter workspace
Full-service firms
Chambers
Bespoke
by retainer
  • §Everything in Senior
  • §Dedicated corpus
  • §On-prem deployment
  • §Private bench analytics
Section III · The Private Chamber · app.preceda.ai
III.i — Application: MatterPro

Counsel, the command bar.

Section III is rendered as a static composition of the app direction from the handoff. It borrows the editorial structure of a memo rather than a chatbot transcript.

Sibbia v. Enforcement Directorate
app.preceda.ai
MatterAnand v. Enforcement DirectorateAnticipatory Bail · § 438
Delhi HCPMLAHearing · 02 May
Ask your library
Prepare an anticipatory bail application under § 438 CrPC. Anand is the accused. The allegation is under § 3, PMLA. He has cooperated with prior summons. I am filing before Justice Navin Chawla at Delhi High Court. Tell me how he has ruled on similar facts in the last five years.
↑ Draft⌘K Authority⌘J Bench⌘F File
openlaw-embedder-v6 · 341ms
Reply — Memo № 0047
14 citations verifiedStill good law

Anticipatory bail in a PMLA matter before a cooperating accused has a narrow but defensible doctrinal base. The governing authority remains Sushila Aggarwal v. State of NCT of Delhi, which settled that the life of an anticipatory bail order need not ordinarily be curtailed by time.

Against a prima facie § 45 PMLA bar, Vijay Madanlal Choudhary preserved the anticipatory remedy where the accused is not a flight risk and has cooperated with prior summons, precisely the present fact pattern.

Before Justice Navin Chawla, the disposition rate on § 438 petitions with cooperation priors stands at 62% across the study period shown in the handoff.

Authorities
Sushila Aggarwal
(2020) 5 SCC 1
followed
Gurbaksh Sibbia
(1980) 2 SCC 565
followed
Vijay Madanlal
(2022) SCC OnLine SC 929
applied
P. Chidambaram
(2019) 9 SCC 24
distinguished
Siddharam Satlingappa
(2011) 1 SCC 694
applied
Section IV · Signature Components
IV.i — Signature Component

The citation authority chain.

Every case becomes a node. Every citation becomes an edge with a treatment. The visual priority is legal lineage, not dashboard decoration.

Constitution Bench
Supreme Court
High Court · Delhi
SC · Constitution Bench0.992
Gurbaksh Sibbia
(1980) 2 SCC 565
SC · 5 Judges0.948
Sushila Aggarwal
(2020) 5 SCC 1
SC · 3 Judges0.612
Siddharam Satlingappa
(2011) 1 SCC 694
SC · 3 Judges0.540
P. Chidambaram
(2019) 9 SCC 24
Delhi HC0.312
Rakesh Kumar Paul
2017 SCC OnLine Del
Delhi HC0.288
Sanjay Chandra Ext.
2022 SCC OnLine Del
Delhi HC0.271
ED v. Malvinder
2023 SCC OnLine Del
FollowedDistinguishedApplied
Authority chain — § 438 CrPC before Delhi HC, last five years.Pagerank-weighted · static showcase
IV.ii — Signature Component

The judge, as a dossier.

Not a bio. A behavioural portrait, composed from every order the judge has passed and summarised as a court-facing brief.

The Hon'ble
Mr. Justice Navin Chawla
High Court of Delhi · Elevated 24 May 2018
Criminal RosterWrit (Criminal)Economic Offences
Before
May 2nd, 2026
Hearing in 12 days
62%
Bail grants · § 438
Δ +21% vs. Delhi HC mean
14.2d
Median disposition
vs. 32d bench mean
8.4%
Reversal rate (SLP)
Below bench mean 11.2%
3,412
Authored orders
Since 2018
Most-cited authorities
Sushila Aggarwal
84
Gurbaksh Sibbia
61
Arnesh Kumar
47
Satender Antil
39
P. Chidambaram
22
Doctrinal temperament
Liberty presumption
Strong · favours accused on bail
Procedural rigour
Strict on § 41A compliance
Economic offence severity
Moderate · distinguishes PMLA from IPC economic offences
Oral submission tempo
Short; written arguments carry more weight
IV.iii — Signature Component

Court-ready. Not draft-ready.

The draft view is framed as a filed document: citations in the margin, treatment stamps in the gutter, and filing metadata carried like a printed brief.

Form
Anticipatory Bail
Under
§ 438 CrPC
Court
Delhi High Court
Judge
Navin Chawla, J.
Limitation
✓ within period
Court Fee
₹ 50
Court-Ready
IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI
Bail Application № 1247 of 2026
(Under Section 438 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973)

Rohit Anand
Director, Anand Fincorp Ltd.
Petitioner
v.
Enforcement Directorate
PMLA Zone II, New Delhi
Respondent

MOST RESPECTFULLY SHEWETH:

1. The Petitioner is a law-abiding citizen and director of a listed company who has cooperated with each summons issued by the Respondent.

2. The grant of anticipatory bail under Section 438 CrPC is governed by Sushila Aggarwal v. State of NCT of Delhi,[1] which held that the life of an anticipatory bail order ought not to be curtailed by time save in exceptional circumstances.

3. That doctrinal foundation traces to Gurbaksh Singh Sibbia v. State of Punjab,[2] wherein pre-arrest bail was treated as extraordinary, but not extraordinarily rare.

Margin Notes
[1](2020) 5 SCC 1
followed
Five-judge bench. Still good law. Most-cited authority before Chawla J.
[2](1980) 2 SCC 565
followed
Constitution Bench. Foundational. 612 subsequent treatments.
[3](2022) SCC OnLine SC 929
applied
§ 45 PMLA — preserved anticipatory remedy.
IV.iv — Signature Component

The invitation.

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