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(1) A collection of can-ons and imperial laws relative or conform-able thereto. The first nomocanon was made by Johannes Scholastlcus in 554. […]

Lat A Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Lat By name; by the name of; under the name or designation of Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Lat in Ro Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

An appointment or designation of a person to fill an office or dis-charge a duty. The act of suggesting or proposing a […]

Lat. By name; express-ed one by one Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

A Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

To propose for an appoint-ment; to designate for an office, a privilege, a living, etc Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In the civil law. Contracts having a proper or peculiar name and form, and which were divided into four kinds, expressive of […]

ln English law. An account of the names of all the villages Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Titular; existing in name only; not real or substantial; connected wlth the transaction or proceeding in name only, not in interest Source: […]

Lat. In the civil law. A name; the name, style, or designation of a person. Properly, the name showing to what gens […]

In Roman law. obligations contracted by liter# (i. e., literis obligationes) were so called be-cause they arose from a peculiar transfer (transcriptto) […]

Lat in practice. A formal entry upon the record, by the plaintiff in a civil suit or the prosecuting officer in a […]

Lat I will not contest it The name of a plea in a criminal action, having the same legal effect as a […]

Fr. In French law. Freight The same with “fret.” Ord. Mar. liv. 8, tit 8 Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Fr. In French marine law. Affreightment ord. Mar. liv. 3, tit 1 Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Lat. In old English law. A nnisance. Nocumentum damnosum, a nuisance occasioning loss or damage. Nocumentum infuriosum, an injurious nui-sance. For the […]

Lat whether wlll-ing or unwilling; consenting or not Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

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 […]

EM DE FIRMA Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In Engllsh law. A division of the people, comprehending dukes Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

From Latln “noeere.** Guilty. “The noeent person.” 1 Vern. 429 Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

ne can grant or convey wbat he does not own. Seymour v. Canandaigua & N. F. R. Co., 25 Barb. (N. Y.) […]

In Scotch law. An equitable power of the court of session, to give relief when none is possible at law. Ersk. Inst. […]