Nominal Plaintiff
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
One who Is named as the plaintiff in an action, but who has no interest in it, having assigned the cause or right of action to another, for whose use it is brought. NOMINARE (Lat. from nomen, name). To name; to nominate; to appoint. Calv. Lex.