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Nullum Simile Est Idem

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Nothing which is like another is the same, i. e., no likeness is exact identity.

2 Story, C. C. (U. S.) 512; Story, Partn. 90; Co. Litt. 3a; 2 Bl. Comm. 162.

NULLUM SIMILE EST IDEM NISI QUAtuor pedibus currit. No like Is identical, unless it run on all fours.

Co. Litt. 3.

NULLUM SIMILE QUATUOR PEDIBUS currit

No simile runs upon four feet, or, as ordinarily expressed, "on all fours."

Co. Litt. 3a; Eunom. Dial. 2, p. 155; 1 Story, C. C. 143.