(1) A collection of can-ons and imperial laws relative or conform-able thereto. The first nomocanon was made by Johannes Scholastlcus in 554. Photins, patriarch of Constantinople, In 883, compiled another nomocanon. or collation of the dvil laws with the canons; this is the most celebrated. Balsamon wrote a commentary upon it In 1180. (2) A collection of the ancient canous of the apostles, councils, and fathers, without any regard to imperial constitutions. Such is the nomocanon by M. Coteller. Enc. Lond
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Lat By name; by the name of; under the name or designation of
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An appointment or designation of a person to fill an office or dis-charge a duty. The act of suggesting or proposing a person by name as a candidate for an office
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To propose for an appoint-ment; to designate for an office, a privilege, a living, etc
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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 ex re, from something done; (2) verbal, ex verbis, from something said; (31 literal, ex literis, from something written; and (4) consensual, ex consensu, from some-thing agreed to. Calvin
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ln English law. An account of the names of all the villages
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Titular; existing in name only; not real or substantial; connected wlth the transaction or proceeding in name only, not in interest
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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 gens or tribe he belonged, as distinguished from his own individual name, (the prceno-men,) from hls surname or family mime, (cognomen,) and from any name added by way of a descriptive title, (agnomen
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In Roman law. obligations contracted by liter# (i. e., literis obligationes) were so called be-cause they arose from a peculiar transfer (transcriptto) from the creditor’s day-book (adversaria) into hls ledger, (codex
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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 de-clares 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 VL 11, 42 Atl. 1087
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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 tlie 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 ao
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Fr. In French law. Freight The same with “fret.” Ord. Mar. liv. 8, tit 8
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Fr. In French marine law. Affreightment ord. Mar. liv. 3, tit 1
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Lat. In old English law. A nnisance. Nocumentum damnosum, a nuisance occasioning loss or damage. Nocumentum infuriosum, an injurious nui-sance. For the latter only a remedy was given. Bract fol. 22L
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Lat whether wlll-ing or unwilling; consenting or not
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By night. An abolished writ which Issued out of chancery, and re-turned to the queen’s bench, for the proe-tration of inciosures, etc
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In Engllsh law. A division of the people, comprehending dukes
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From Latln “noeere.** Guilty. “The noeent person.” 1 Vern. 429
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ne can grant or convey wbat he does not own. Seymour v. Canandaigua & N. F. R. Co., 25 Barb. (N. Y.) 284, 301. See Saltus v. Everett, 20 wend. (N. Y.) 267, 32 Am. Dec. 541; Fassett v. Smith, 23 N. Y. 252; Brower v. Peabody, 13 N. Y. 121; Beav-ers v. Lane, 6 Duer (N. Y.) 232
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In Scotch law. An equitable power of the court of session, to give relief when none is possible at law. Ersk. Inst. 1, 3, 22; Bell
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