Nominate Contracts
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
In the civillaw. 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 ve, from something done; (2) verbal, ex verbis, from something said; (3) literal, ex literis, from something written; and (4) consensual, ex consensu, from something agreed to.
Calvin.