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Agnomen

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary

Lat. In the Roman law. The last of the four names used among the Romans; the other three being the prcenomen, the nomen, and the cognomen; a name assumed or added from some particular circumstance; a surname.

Inst. 2. 20. 29.

Cooper^ s Notes, in loco.