Analogy
Defined in 6 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910), Black's (1891), Anderson (1889), Bouvier (1839)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The similitude of relations which exist between things compared.
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
The similitude of relation-; which exist between things compared. See Smith v. State, 63 Ala. 58. Analogy has been declared to be an argument or guide in forming legal judgments, and is very commonly a ground of such judgments; 3 Bingh. 265; 4 Burr. 1962, 2022, 2068; 6 Ves. 675; 3 Swanst 561; 3 P. Will. 391; 3 Bro. C. C. 639, n.
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
A Dictionary of Law
Henry Campbell Black · 1891
In logic. Identity or similarity of proportion. Where there is no precedent in point, in cases on the same subject, lawyers have recourse to cases on a different subject-matter, but governed by the same general principle. This is reasoning by analogy. Wharton.
A Dictionary of Law
William C. Anderson · 1889
See Argumbntum, A simile.
A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States
John Bouvier · 1839
construction, is the similitude of relations which exist between things compared; it is the induction made from a known fact. To reason analogically is to draw conclusions based on this similitude of relations, on the resemblance, on the connexion which is perceived between the objects compared. “It is this guide” says Toullier, “ which leads the lawgiver like other men, without his observing it. It is analogy which induces us with reason to suppose that following the example of the Creator of the universe, the lawgiver has established general and uniform laws, which it is unnecessary to repeat in all analogous cases.” Dr. Civ. Fr. liv. 3, t.1,¢c.1. Vide Ang. on Adv. Enjoym. 30, 31; Hale’s Com. Law, 141.