Notour
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
In Scotch law
Open; notorious. A notour bankrupt is a debtor who, being under diligence by horning and capwards found insolvent by court of sessions.
Bell, Diet.; Burton, Law of Scotland, 601.
NOVA CONSTITUTIO FUTURIS FORmam imponere debet, non praeteritis. A new enactment ought to impose form upon what is to come, not upon what is past. 2 Inst. 292; Broom, Leg. Max. (3d London Ed.) 33, 36; T. Jones, 108; 2 Show. 16; 6 Mees. & W. 285; 7 Mees. & W. 536; 2 Mass. 122, 2 Gall. (U. S.) 139; 2 N. Y. 245; 7 Johns. (N. Y.) 503 et seq., — ^where this rule is fully considered and the authorities reviewed.