Legal Term Dictionary

Lat In old English law. A nuisance. Nocumentum damnosum, a nuisance occasioning loss or damage. Nocumentum injuriosum, an Injurious nuisance. For the latter only a remedy was given. Bract fol. 22L

Lat In old English law. A nuisance. Nocumentum damnosum, a nuisance occasioning loss or damage. Nocumentum injuriosum, an Injurious nuisance. For the latter only a remedy was given. Bract fol. 22L Less...

Lat Whether willing or unwilling; consenting or not.

Lat Whether willing or unwilling; consenting or not. Less...

Fr. In French law. Freight The same with "fret" Ord. Mar. liv. 8, tit 8.

Fr. In French law. Freight The same with "fret" Ord. Mar. liv. 8, tit 8. Less...

Fr. In French marine law. Affreightment Ord. Mar. Uv. 3, tit L

Fr. In French marine law. Affreightment Ord. Mar. Uv. 3, tit L Less...

Lat I will not contest it The name of a plea In a criminal action, having the same legal effect as a plea of guilty, so far as regards all proceedings on the indictment, and on which the defendant may be sentenced. U. S. v. Hartwell, 3 Cliff. 221, Fed. More...

Lat I will not contest it The name of a plea In a criminal action, having the same legal effect as a plea of guilty, so far as regards all proceedings on the indictment, and on which the defendant may be sentenced. U. S. v. Hartwell, 3 Cliff. 221, Fed. Cas. No. 15,318 Like a demurrer this plea admits, for the purposes of the case, all the facts which are well pleaded, but is not to be used as an admission elsewhere. Less...

Lat In practice. A formal entry upon the record, by the plaintiff in a civil suit or the prosecuting officer in a criminal action, by which he declares that he "will no further prosecute" the case, either as to some of the counts, or some of the defendants, or altogether. More...

Lat In practice. A formal entry upon the record, by the plaintiff in a civil suit or the prosecuting officer in a criminal action, by which he declares that he "will no further prosecute" the case, either as to some of the counts, or some of the defendants, or altogether. State v. Primm, 61 Mo. 171; Com. v. Casey, 12 Allen (Mass.) 214; Davenport v. Newton, 71 Vt 11, 42 Ati. 1087. A nolle prosequi is in the nature of an acknowledgment or undertaking by the plaintiff in an action to forbear to proceed any further either in the action altogether, or as to some part of it, or as to some of the defendants; and is different from a non pros., by which the plaintiff is put out of court with respect to all the defendants. Brown. Less...

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 pramo-men) from his surname or family name, (cognomen) and from any name added by way of More...

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 pramo-men) 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 a debtor. Alnsworth; Calvin. -Nomen eolleetivnm. A collective name or term; a term expressive of a class; a term including several of the same kind: a term expressive of the plural, as well as singular, number.-Nomen generals. A general name; the name of a genus. Fleta, lib. 4, c 19, I 1.- Nomen generalissimnm. A name of the most general kind; a name or term of the most general meaning. By the name of "land," which is nomen eneralissimum, everything terrestrial will pass. 2 Bl. Comm. 19; 3 Bl. Comm. 172. -Nomen jnris. A name of the law; a technical legal term.-Nomen transcriptitium. See NOMINA TRANSCRIFTITIA. Nomen est quasi rei notamen. A name is, as It were, , the note of a thing. 11 Coke, 20. Nomen non snfflcit, si res non sit do Jure aut de f aeto. A name is not sufficient if there be not a thing [or subject for it] de jure or de facto. 4 Coke, 107b. Nomina mutabilia sunt, res autem im-mobiles. Names are mutable, but things are immovable, [immutable.] A name may be true or false, or may change, but the thing Itself always maintains its Identity. 6 Coke, 66. Nomina al neseis perit oognitio rerun; et nom in a si perdas, eerte distinetio rerum perditur. Co. Litt. 86. If you know not the names of things, the knowledge of things themselves perishes; and, if you lose the names, the distinction of the things is certainly lost. Nomina sunt note) rerum. 11 Coke, 20. Names are the notes of things. Nomina sunt symbola rerum. Qodb. .Names are the symbols of things. Less...

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.)

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.) Less...

In English law. An account of the names of all the villages and the possessors thereof, in each county, drawn up by several sheriffs, (9 Edw. II.) and returned by them into the exchequer, where it is still preserved. Wharton.

In English law. An account of the names of all the villages and the possessors thereof, in each county, drawn up by several sheriffs, (9 Edw. II.) and returned by them into the exchequer, where it is still preserved. Wharton. Less...

To propose for an appointment ; to designate for an office, a privilege, a living, etc

To propose for an appointment ; to designate for an office, a privilege, a living, etc Less...