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.