Analogous
/əˈnæl.ə.gəs/
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- (adj.) Having a similarity or comparability to something else, allowing for inference or legal reasoning by comparison.
The court found the circumstances analogous and applied the precedent accordingly.
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In legal contexts, 'analogous' often supports reasoning by analogy, enabling application of existing law to new facts that are comparable but not identical.
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