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Analogy, identity or similarity of proportion: where there is no precedent in point, in cases on the same subject, lawyers have recourse to cases in a different subject-matter but governed by the same general principle. This is reasoning by analogy. See COMMON LAW, and remark of Parko, J., in Mirehouse v. Rennell, (1830) 8 Bing. At p. 515.