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idem sonans

idem sonans [Latin, sounding the same] : relating to or being two names having the same or similar pronunciation or sound [the two names are not idem sonans "Johnson v. Estelle, 704 F.2d 232 (1983)"] [the idem sonans test] compare misnomer NOTE: An idem sonans name allows a pleading or other document (as a warrant) to be considered valid despite the minor misspelling of a name or other misidentification of a party (as in identifying a corporation as a partnership). The fact that two trademarks are idem sonans may be used to establish the likelihood of confusion on the part of consumers in a trademark infringement case. ...


Idem per idem

Idem per idem, an illustration of a kind that really adds no additional element to the consideration of the question.Means the same for the same. This phrase refers to an illustration that adds nothing to a matter under consideration, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 748....


Ubi eadem ratio ibi idem jus, et de similibus idem est judicium

Ubi eadem ratio ibi idem jus, et de similibus idem est judicium (Co. Litt. 191a), where there is the same reason, there is the same right; and of things similar, the judgment is similar....


ad idem

ad idem [Latin, to the same] : in agreement : at a meeting of the minds [the parties were ad idem] ...


idem

idem [Latin, same] : something previously mentioned : the same authority used in citations to cases and other works to refer to an immediately preceding reference compare infra, supra NOTE: Idem is usually used in the form of its abbreviation id.[In Bally, the plaintiff also claimed…403 Mass. at 720-21. The [court] denied the claim…Id. at 721 "R. T. Gerwatowski"] ...


consensus ad idem

consensus ad idem [Latin, agreement with respect to the same thing] : meeting of the minds ...


Ad idem

Ad idem (at the same point), said of negotiating parties when they are quite agreed, so that a binding contract has been made between them. So long as any new term is put forward by one party and not accepted by the other, this cannot be....


Bona fides non patitur, ut bis idem exigatur

Bona fides non patitur, ut bis idem exigatur [Lat.], Good faith does not suffer the same thing to be exacted twice....


De similibus idem est judicium

De similibus idem est judicium. 7 Co. 18.-(In like cases the judgment is the same.)...


Excusat aut extenuat delictum in capitalibus quod non operatur idem incivilibus

Excusat aut extenuat delictum in capitalibus quod non operatur idem incivilibus. Bac. Max. r. 15.-(That may excuse of palliate a wrongful act in capital cases which would not have the same effect in civil injuries.)...


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