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  • NOMINATE CONTRACTS
    In the civil law. Contracts having a proper or peculiar name and form, and which were divided into four kinds, expressive of the ways in which they were 'formed, viz.: (1) Real, which arose em re, from something done; (2) verbal, ex verbis, from something said; (3) literal, ex Uteris, More...
  • NOMINAL
    Titular; existing in name only; not real or substantial; connected with the transaction or proceeding in name only, not in interest ---Nominal consideration. See CONSIDERATION.-Nominal damages. See DAMAGES. -Nominal defendant. A person who is joined as defendant in an action, not because he is immediately liable in damages or because More...
  • NOMINATIM
    Lat. By name; expressed one by one.
  • NOMINATING AND REDUCING
    A mode of obtaining a panel of special jurors in England, from which to select the jury to try a particular action. The proceeding takes place before the under-sheriff or secondary, and in the presence of the parties' solicitors. Numbers denoting the persons on the sheriffs list are put into More...
  • NOMINATIO AUCTORIS
    Lat In Roman law. A form of plea or defense In an action for the recovery of real estate, by which the defendant sued as the person apparently in possession, alleges that he holds only in the name or for the benefit of another, whose name he discloses by the More...
  • NOMINATION
    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 More...
  • NOMINATIVUS PENDENS
    Lat 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.
  • NOMINE
    Lat By name; by the name of; under the name or designation of.
  • NOMINE PCENAE
    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 More...
  • NOMINEE
    One who has been nominated or proposed for an office.
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