Definitions from Black's Law Dictionary: 2nd Edition and Ballentine's Law Dictionary as are available for each term in each dictionary.
  • Ballentine's Law Dictionary

    A popular appellation often appended to one’s true name. Agrarian. Pertaining to land.

  • Black's Law Dictionary: 2nd Edition

    Lat. An additional name or title; a nickname. A name or title which a man gets by some action or peculiarity; the last of the four names sometimes given a Roman. Thus, Scipio Africanus, (the African,) from hla African victories. Ainsworth; Calvin.'