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ANALOGY Definition & Legal Meaning

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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.

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