idem sonansadj.n.

1822 T. Starkie Treat. Criminal Pleading (ed. 2) II. App. 818 Semble the mispelling of a name in setting out a record is fatal, although it be idem sonans.

1856 Newsp. & Gen. Reader's Compan. ii. §1749 The verb was unluckily idem sonans with another word.

1900 H. H. Furness New Variorum Ed. Shakespeare (ed. 2) XXII. 249 In dictating copy to the compositors, ‘patience’ would be almost, as lawyers say, idem sonans with passions.

1931 Michigan Law Rev. 29 511 The court..held that these names were not idem sonans.

2005 R. Megarry & L. Merriman New Miscellany-at-law xiv. 224 Some four centuries later it was established that ‘Shakespeare’ was not idem sonans with ‘Shakepear’.

1848 J. J. S. Wharton Law Lexicon 304/2 The courts will not interfere in setting aside proceedings on account of the misspelling of names, provided..there is an idem sonans between the pronunciation of the right name and that which is inserted in the proceedings; as Lawrance, instead of Lawrence, Reynell for Reynolds, Beniditto for Benedetto.

1919 H. L. Mencken Amer. Lang. viii. 273 In America, with a language of peculiar vowel sounds and even consonant~sounds struggling against a foreign invasion unmatched for strength or variety..the legal rule of idem sonans is of much wider utility than anywhere else in the world.

1959 Harvard Law Rev. 72 648 Transposition of the investment-value doctrine to other types of corporate readjustment lacks even the justification of idem sonans.

1964 Charleston (W. Va.) Gaz. 16 July 40/1 The rarely used doctrine ‘idem sonans’ was resorted to Wednesday by the state in Intermediate Court.

2004 Michigan Law Rev. 103 482 They had different names but as Holmes put it elsewhere, idem sonans, they sound the same and can only be differentiated by recourse to external circumstances.