Mutatis mutandis

mutatis mutandis
Latin term meaning things being changed which are to be changed. This phrase and the use of it may best be explained by an example.

Mutatis Mutandis:
With appropriate changes as applicable. For example, in proposals all other sections of the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act, over and above the section on proposals, applies to proposals, mutatis mutandis.

and obligations, and finally, in place of actions, which have no importance for French law except from the point of view of procedure, privileges and hypothecs, as in the ancient coutumes of France, and prescription. It is, mutatis mutandis, ...

Mutatis Mutandis A phrase indicating that a document or thing may be changed or amended to reflect non-material matters (like a new address or telephone number) without changing the legal effect thereof. Altered, yet fundamentally the same.

See also: Obligation, Right, Thing, Contract, Action