Firm Name
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
A firm name is such name as the copartners choose to adopt, and may disclose the names of all the partners or of none of them, or the name of but one of them may be used as the firm name.
189 111. 245.
FIRM A (Law Lat.) A farm or rent re-' served on letting lands, anciently frequently reserved in provisions. Spelman; Cunningham. A banquet; supper; provisions for the table. Du Cange. '.A tribute or custom paid towards entertaining the king for one night. Domesday Book; Cowell. A rent reserved to be paid in money, called then alba firma, white rents, money rents.
Spelman.
A lease; a letting.
Ad firmam tradidi
I have farm let.
Spelman.
A messuage with the house, garden, or lands, etc., connected therewith.
Co. Litt. 5a; Shep. Touch. 93.
See "Farm." FIRMA FEODI (Law Lat.) Fee farm.
See Feodi Firma.