Name
A Law Dictionary and Glossary · George C. Kinney · 1893
A Law Dictionary and Glossary
Ifi:, Namiuin, I. I.
In old English law
A taking; a distress; a thing or chattel distrained. Name si est nn general nosme a arers et a cliateux, et a touts auters choses moebles que leu poit prendre en nome de destresse: name is a-general word for beasts and chattels and all other movable things which one may take in name of a distress.
Nari-., narratio, 1. 1, Narracon, I. fr.
In old English law
A count, or declaration, so called, as being a narrative by the plaintifiE of the facts of the case which constitutes the ground of actioa