Nominating And Reducing

A mode of obtaining a panel of special jurors in England, from which to select the jury to try a particular action. The proceeding solicitors. Numbers denoting the persons on the sheriff's list are put into a box and drawn until forty-eight unchallenged persons have been nominated. Each party strikes off twelve, and the remaining twenty-four are returned as the "panel" (g. i>.) This practice is now only employed by order of the court or judge. Smith, Actions, 130; Juries Act 1870, § 17; Rapalje & L. NOMINATIVUS PENDENS (Lat.) A nominative case grammatically unconnected with the rest of the sentence in which it stands. The opening words in the ordinary form of a deed inter partes, "This indenture," etc., down to "whereas," though an intelligible and convenient part of the deed, are of this kind.

Wharton.

NOMINE POENAE (Lat. in the nature of a penalty). In Civil Law. A condition annexed to heirship by the will of the deceased person. Domat, Civ. Law; Halifax, Anal. At Common Law. A penalty fixed by covenant in a lease for nonperformance of its conditions.

2 Lilly, Abr. 221.

It is usually a gross suni of money, though it may be anything else, appointed to be paid by the tenant to the reversioner, if the duties are in arrear, in addition to the duties themselves.

Hammond, N. P. 411, 412.