Nominate contracts
A Law Dictionary and Glossary · George C. Kinney · 1893
A Law Dictionary and Glossary
In the civil law. Contracts having a proper or peculiar name and form, which were divided into four kinds, expressive of the ways in which they were formed: real, which arose, ex re, from something done; verbal, ex verbis, from something said; literal, ex Uteris, from something written; consensual, ex consensu, from something agreed to.