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Descriptio Persone

Lat. De-ecriptlon of the person. By this is meant a word or phrase used merely for the purpose of identifying or pointing out the person lntended, and not as an intimatlou that the language In connection with which It occurs is to apply to hlm only in the official or technical character which might appear to be ln-dlcated by the word

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