De Servitio Regis

Lat. [L. Fr. de service U roy.] Of the king's service. A species of essoin, or excuse for a defendant's non appearance in court, the groimd of which was that he was necessarily detained in the king's service. Olanv, hb. 1, c. 27. Bract, fol. 838 b. Spelman, voc. Esioniare, 1 Reeves* HisL 118. Be sim Uibiis 114 si Mtilf a esd IcBft ratl Me yir«c«4ieA4«ni 9mu From similar things to similar things we are to proceed by the same rule or reason; p. e. we are allowed to argue from the analogy of cases.] Branch's Frinc, Be afniilibtts Meat Mt JadlcaadnM. Of [respecting] like things, [in Hke cases,] the judgment is to be the same. 7 Co. 18. Both these maxims seem to be embraced in, if not derived from, the following passage of Bracton, in which that author, at the commencement of his work, lays down a fundamental principle of the common law. Si similia evenerintt per simile judicentur, cum bona sit occasio a similibus procedere ad similia; if like cases have occurred, they [the new cases] are to be judged by the uke rule, since it is a good occasion [or proper course] to proceed from like things to like. Bract, fol. 1 b.