Innominate Contracts
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
In civil law
Contracts which have no particular names, as permutation and transaction.
Inst. 2. 10. 13.
There are many innominate contracts; but the Roman lawyers reduced them to four classes, namely, do ut des, do ut facias, fado ut des, and facio ut facias.
Dig. 2. 14. 7. 2.
INNONIA (Law Lat.) In old English law. A close or inclosure (clausum, inclausura), Spelman. INNOTESCIMUS (Lat.) In English law. An epithet used for letters patent, which are always of a charter of feoffment, or some other instrument not of record, concluding vdth the words, innotescimus per praesentes, etc. Tech. Diet.