Innominate Contracts
Defined in 2 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Bouvier (1914)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
In civil law. Contracts which have no particular names, as permutation and transaction. Inst. 2. 10. 13. There are many innominate contracts; but the Roman lawyers reduced them to four classes, namely, do ut des, do ut facias, fado ut des, and facio ut facias. Dig. 2. 14. 7. 2. INNONIA (Law Lat.)
In old English law. A close or inclosure (clausum, inclausura), Spelman. INNOTESCIMUS (Lat.)
In English law. An epithet used for letters patent, which are always of a charter of feoffment, or some other instrument not of record, concluding vdth the words, innotescimus per praesentes, etc. Tech. Diet.
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
In Civil Law. Contracts which have no particular names, as permutation and transaction. Inst. 2, 10. 13. There are many innominate contracts; but the Roman lawyers reduced them to four classes, namely, do ut dea, do ut facias, facio ut des, and facio ut facias.