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Like. Compare Quasi. De similibus idem est judicium. As to like cases, the judgment is the same. See Arqumentum. Nullum simile est idem. No like thing is the same; likeness or similarity is not identity. Thus, while a partner is like a joint-tenant and a tenant in common, he Is neither; * a telegraph company is like, but is not the same as, a common carrier; ^ an award of arbitrators is not like a judgment in all respects; ' a check resembles a bill of exchange, yet it is not the same thing. In the patent and copyright laws, identity, not resemblance, is regarded.* Similiter. Likewise; the like. A reply that as one party has put himself upon the country, the other does the same. The full sentence was et proedictus similiter, equivalent to " and he does the like." Expresses concurrence in referring a trial to the jury. In strictness, no part of the pleadings: it neither affirms nor denies any fact; is matter of form. Spoken of as the w»u!iter.^