Innocent Conveyances
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
In English law
A technical term used to signify those conveyances made by a tenant of his leasehold which do not occasion a forfeiture. These are conveyances by lease and release, bargain and sale, and a covenant to stand seised by a tenant for life.
1 Chit. Prac. 243, 244.
INNOMINATE (Lat.) In civil law. Not named or classed; belonging to no specific class; ranking under a general head. A term applied to those contracts for which no certain or precise remedy was appointed, but a general action on the case only.
Dig. 2. 1. 4. 7. 2; Id. 19. 4. 5.