QUASI
quasi (kway-sIorkway-zIalsokwah-zee). [Latin “as if”] Seemingly but not actually; in some
sense; resembling; nearly.
“QUASI. A Latin word frequently used in the civil law, and often prefixed to English words.
It is not a very definite word. It marks the resemblance, and supposes a little difference, between
two objects, and in legal phraseology the term is used to indicate that one subject resembles
another, with which it is compared, in certain characteristics, but that there are also intrinsic and
material differences between them. It negatives the idea of identity, but implies a strong superficial
analogy, and points out that the conceptions are sufficiently similar for one to be classed as the
equal of the other.” 74 C.J.S. Quasi, at 2 (1951). [Blacks Law 8th]