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For Wikipedia's templates used to disambiguate terms or names, see Wikipedia:Template messages/General.
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In law, to distinguish a case means to compare the facts of the case before the court from the facts of a case of precedent where there is an apparent similarity. By successfully distinguishing a case, the holding or legal reasoning of the earlier case will either not apply or will be limited. |
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