Nomen
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence · Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
A name
In general, the name of a person or thing. In a more limited sense, used in Roman law, the name which. declared the gens to which the person belonged; usually preceded by the prcenomen and followed by the cognomen; to which the agnomen was sometimes added. In English law, nomen often designates the Christian name, as distinguished from the family name.
Nomen co Uecti Tum
A collective name. A name in the singular number, but sometimes to be understood in a plural sense, either as expressing a class or several things of the same kind. Thus, misdemeanor, a word of the singular number, includes several offences, and may be taken as nomen collectivum. So heir, in the singular, may include aU the heirs of a person.
Nomen generalissimum
A general name. A term of the most comprehensive kind. Thus land is nomen generalissimum; and every thing tei Testrial, it is said, will pass under that name.
2 Bl. Com. 19; 3 7rf. 172.
Nomen juris
A name of the law; a technical legal term; any term employed in legal phraseology, which has Nomine poense. In the nature of a penalty.
1.
In the civil law. A condition annexed to a legacy or devise, for the purpose of coercing the person to comply with the condition, was said to be nomine pcence.
2.
In the common law. The term is applied to the penalty fixed by a covenant in a lease for non-performance of its conditions; generally, a forfeiture of a certain sum of money.