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Innominate

Defined in 4 dictionaries — Ballentine's (1916), Black's (1910), Kinney (1893), Black's (1891)

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

James A. Ballentine · 1916

Unclassified.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

In the 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.

— Innominate contracts, literally. the "unclassified" contracts of Roman law. They are contracts which are neither re, verbis, Uteris, nor consensu simply, but some mixture of or variation upon two or more of such contracts. They are principally the contracts of permutatio, de œstmato, precarium, and transactio. Brown.

A Law Dictionary and Glossary

George C. Kinney · 1893

Iri the civil law. Not named or classed; belonging to no specific class.

A Dictionary of Law

Henry Campbell Black · 1891

In thecivillaw. Not named or classed; belonging to no specific class; ranking under a general head. A term applied to those contracfs 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, 6.