Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
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In consimili casu consimile debet esse remedium
In a similar case, the remedy should be similar.
consimili casu
n. [Latin "in a like case"] Hist. A writ of entry allowing the holder of a reversionary interest in land to sue for the return of land alienated by a life tenant or a tenant by the curtesy. ( This writ originated in the Statute of Westminster 2 (13 Edw. I) ch. 24 (1285), which expanded the writs available to litigants by requiring the Chancery to issue a writ for any situation that called for a writ similar to one that had previously issued consimili casu ("in a like case"). Specifically, the statute provided (in Latin) that "as often as it shall happen in chancery that in one case a writ is found, and in a like case [in consimili casu], falling under the same right, and requiring like remedy, no writ is to be found, the clerks of chancery shall agree in making a writ . . . . " Many other writs were framed under Westminster 2, but this particular writ's close association with the statute led to its taking the generic name. See ACTIONES NOMINATAE.
in consimili casu
See CONSIMILI CASU.