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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

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

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

Latin: By name; by the name of; under the name or designation of. … [Read more...] about NOMINE

A name which applies generally to a number of things; as, land, which is a general name by which everything attached to the freehold will pass. … [Read more...] about NOMEN GENERALISSIMUM