An appointment or designation of a person to fill an office or discharge a duty. The act of suggesting or proposing a person by name as a candidate for an office. Nomination to a living. In English ecclesiastical law. The rights of nominating and of presenting to a living are distinct, and may reside in different persons. Presentation is the offering a clerk to the bishop. … [Read more...] about NOMINATION
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NOMEN
Lat. In the civil law. A name; the name, style, or designation of a person. Properly, the name showing to what pens or tribe he belonged, as distinguished from his own individual name, (the pramomen) from his surname or family name, (cognomen) and from any name added by way of a descriptive title, (agnomen) The name or style of a class or genus of persons or objects. A debt or … [Read more...] about NOMEN
NOMINATIVUS PENDENS
Latin: A nominative case grammatically unconnected with the rest of the sentence in which it stands. The opening words in the ordinary form of a deed inter partes, "This indenture," etc., down to "whereas," though an Intelligible and convenient part of the deed, are of this kind. Wharton. … [Read more...] about NOMINATIVUS PENDENS
NOMEN COLLECTIVUM
This expression is used to signify that a word in the singular number is to be understood in the plural in certain cases. 2. Misdemeanor, for example, is a word of this kind, and when in the singular, may be taken as nomen collectivum, and including several offences. 2 Barn. & Adolp. 75. Heir, in the singular, sometimes includes all the heirs. … [Read more...] about NOMEN COLLECTIVUM
NOMINE
Latin: By name; by the name of; under the name or designation of. … [Read more...] about NOMINE