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...]

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

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...]

S. In the name of a penalty. In the civil law, a legacy was said to be left nomine poena where it was left for the purpose of coercing the heir to do or not to do something. Inst 2, 20, 36. The term has also been applied, in English law, to some kinds of covenants, such as a covenant inserted in a lease that the lessee shall forfeit a certain sum on non-payment of rent, or on … [Read more...]

In Roman law. Obligations contracted by Uteres (i.e. Uteris obligationes) were so called because they arose from a peculiar transfer (tronscriptio) from the creditor's day-book (adversaria) Into his ledger, (codex.) … [Read more...]