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Home Dictionary Name: similizeFac simile probate
Fac simile probate, where the construction of the will may be affected by the appearance of the original paper, the Court will order the probate to pass in fac simile, as it may possibly help to show the meaning of the testator....
Similize
To liken to compare as to similize a person thing or act...
Fac simile
Fac simile (make it like). An exact copy, preserving all the marks of the original....
Nullum simile est idem nisi quatuor pedibus currit
Nullum simile est idem nisi quatuor pedibus currit. Similarity is not analogy unless it runs on all fours....
Talis non est eadem; nam nullum simile est idem
Talis non est eadem; nam nullum simile est idem (4 Co. 18), what is like is not the same; for nothing similar is the same....
metaphor
The transference of the relation between one set of objects to another set for the purpose of brief explanation a compressed simile e g the ship plows the sea...
Similative
Implying or indicating likeness or resemblance...
Simile
A word or phrase by which anything is likened in one or more of its aspects to something else a similitude a poetical or imaginative comparison...
All Fours
All Fours, a case agreeing in all its circumstances with another case is sometimes said to be 'on all fours' with it. Nullum simile est idem, nisi quatuor pedibus currit, Co. Litt. 3. (Nothing similar is the same, unless it runs on all fours with it.)...
Forgery
Forgery [fr. forger, Fr.; or fingo, Lat.], the crimen falsi, or the false making or alteration of an instrument, which purports on the face of it to be good and valid for the purposes for which it was created, with a design to defraud. The forged instrument must be false in itself. The mere subscribing a note, given as the party's own, by a fictitious name, was held not to be forgery, Reg. v. Martin, (1879) 5 QBD 34.The act of fraudulently making a false document or altering a real one to be used as if genuine, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 661.Forgery at Common Law was a misdemeanour but most forgeries have been made felony by statute. Many of these statutes were consolidated by 11 Geo. 4 & 1 Wm. 4, c. 66, repealed and replaced by the Forgery Act, 1861 (24 & 25 Vict. c. 98), but the law now principally depends on the Forgery Act, 1913 (3 & 4 Geo. 5, c. 27, 'an Act to consolidate, simplify and amend the law relating to forgery and kindred offences.' It repeals such portions of s...
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