The latin term 'mutatis mutandis' is used when doing what to two basically similar things?
Mutatis mutandis Mutatis mutandis Mutatis mutandis is a Medieval Latin phrase meaning "the necessary changes having been made" or "once the necessary changes have been made". It remains unnaturalized in English and is therefore usually italicized in writing. It is used in many countries to acknowledge that a comparison being made requires certain obvious alterations, which are left unstated. It is not to be confused with the similar "ceteris paribus", which excludes any changes other than those explicitly mentioned. "Mutatis mutandis" is increasingly replaced by non-Latin equivalents, such as without loss of generality, but is still used in law, economics, mathematics, linguistics,
Mutatis mutandis will be made but everything else will remain the same." In the wake of the Plain English movements, some countries attempted to replace their law codes' legal Latin with English equivalents. The phrase appears in other European languages as well. A passage of Marcel Proust's "Remembrance of Things Past" includes "...j'ai le fils d'un de mes amis qui, mutatis mutandis, est comme vous..." ("A friend of mine has a son whose case, "mutatis mutandis", is very much like yours.") The German Ministry of Justice, similar to the Plain English advocates above, now eschews its use. Their official English translation of