Nobile Officium

In Scotch law. An equitable power of the court of sessions, by which it is able, to a certain extent, to give relief when none is possible at law. Stair, Inst. bk. 4, tit. 3, § 1; Ersk. Inst. 1. 3. 22; Bell, Diet. NOBILES MAGIS PLECTUNTUR PECUnia; plebes vero In corporo. The higher classes are more punished in money; but the lower in person. 3 Inst. 220. NOBILES SUNT QUI ARMA GENTILItia antecessorum suorum proferre possunt. The gentry are those who are able to produce armorial bearings derived by descent from their own ancestors. 2 Inst. 595. NOBILIORES ET BENIGNIORES PREsumptiones in dublis sunt praeferendae. When doubts arise, the most generous and

In Scotch law. An equitable power of the court of session, to give relief when none is possible at law. Ersk. Inst. 1, 3, 22; Bell. Nobiles magis plectuntur pecunia; plebes vero in corpore. 8 Inst. 220, The higher classes are more punished in money; but the lower in person. Wobiles sunt, qui arma gentilitia antecessorum suorum proferre possunt, 2 Inst. 595. The gentry are those who ure able to produce armorial bearings derived by descent from their own ancestors. Nobiliores ot benigniores preesumptiones in dubiis sunt preeferendse. In eases of doubt, the more generous and more benign presumptions are to be preferred. A civil-law maxim. Nobilitas est duplex, superior et inferior. 2 Inst. 583. ‘There are two sorts of nobility, the higher and the lower.

Noble privilege; noble duty. In Scotch law, a peculiar jurisdiction of privilege of the court of session, equitable in its nature. The nobile officium of the court of session does not admit of a precise definition. Generally speaking, it may be said to be the equitable power vested in that court, whereby it interposes to modify or abate the rigor of the law, and, to a certain extent, to give aid where no remedy could be had in a court confined to strict law. BeU Diet.