Innominate
Defined in 4 dictionaries — Ballentine's (1916), Black's (1910), Kinney (1893), Black's (1891)
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
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.