Nomen

Lat.

In the civil law. A name; the name, style or designation of a person. Properly, the name showing to what yens or tribe he belonged, as distinguished from his own individual name, (the prceno-men,) from his surname or family name, (cognomen,) and from any name added by way of a descriptive title, (agnomen.) The name or style of a class or genus of persons or objects. A debt or a debtor. Ainsworth; Calvin.

— Nomen collectivum. A collective name or term; a term expressive of a class; a term including several of the same kind ; a term expressive of the plural, as well as singular, number.

— Nomeu generate. A general name; the name of a genus. Fleta, lib. 4, c. 19, § 1.

— Nomen generalissimum. A name of the most general kind ; a name or term of the most general meaning. By the name of "land," which is nomen generalissimum, everything terrestrial will pass. 2 Bl. Comm. 19; 3 Bl. Comm. 172.

— Nomen juris. A name of the law ; a technical legal term.

— Nomen transeriptitinm. See Nomina Transcriptitia.

pi. nomina, I A name. Nomen collectivum: a collective name or term; a term expressive of a class, of the plural as well as the singular number; a term descriptive of person or interest, or both. Nomen dicitnr a noscendo, quia uotitiam facit: nomen (a name) is so called from noscendo (knowing), because it causes knowledge. Nomen est quasi reinotamen: nomen (a name) is, as it were, notamen rei (the mark of a thing). Nomen generate: a general name; the name of a genus. Nomen generalissimum: a name of technicfil term. Noinen non snfllcit, si res non sit de jure ant de facto: a name is not sufficient, if there be not a thing [or subject for it] de jure or de facto. Nomen nniversitatis: the name [of the ■whole together], the entire tiling, from all ijoints of view. Nomina mntabilia snnt, res antein immobiles: names are mutable, but things are immovable [immutable]. Nomina si nescis perit cognitio reram et nomina, si perdas certe distinetlo rerum perditnr: if you are ignorant of names [without a knowledge of names], the knowledge of things perishes; and if you lose the names, the distinction of things IS certainly lost In old English law. A name; the name; the given or baptismal name of a person. Nomina Tillarnm: names of the villages; the name of a, return made by the sheriffs into the exchequer, in the reign of Edward TI., of the names of all the villages and their possessors in every county.

In the Roman law. A name; in the most general sense, the three names of prcenomen, nomen and cognomen; in a strict sense, the second of the three names which the Romans commonly had, following the prcenomen, and marking the gens to which the individual belonged; a debtor; the obligation of a debtor; a debt; the cause of a debt; an article of an account. Nomina signiflcandorum hominnm reperta sunt, qui si alio qnolibet modo intelligautur, nihil interest: names were invented for the purpose of designating persons, who, if they can be known in any other way, it makes no difference.

A name. Nomen collectivum. A class name. Thus, " heir " may include all the heirs of a person, and " misdemeanor " includes many different species of offenses. Nomen generalissimum. A very general name: a comprehensive term. Such are the terms crime, demand, draft, estate, goods, grant, heir, house, instrument, interest, laud, merchandise, obligation, offense. Nomine. By name; under the name of.

I. Name. Nomen collectivum singular noun of multitude. most general name, the most juris: a term technical in law. name (of the whole together), the view, vrith all its rights. Nomina are the marks of things. Nomine penalty): a penalty fixed by covenant ance of its conditions. Nomine age; by way of damages.

A name. In general, the name of a person or thing.

In a more limited sense, used in Roman law, the name which. declared the gens to which the person belonged; usually preceded by the prcenomen and followed by the cognomen; to which the agnomen was sometimes added. In English law, nomen often designates the Christian name, as distinguished from the family name. Nomen co Uecti Tum. A collective name. A name in the singular number, but sometimes to be understood in a plural sense, either as expressing a class or several things of the same kind. Thus, misdemeanor, a word of the singular number, includes several offences, and may be taken as nomen collectivum. So heir, in the singular, may include aU the heirs of a person. Nomen generalissimum. A general name. A term of the most comprehensive kind. Thus land is nomen generalissimum; and every thing tei Testrial, it is said, will pass under that name. 2 Bl. Com. 19; 3 7rf. 172. Nomen juris. A name of the law; a technical legal term; any term employed in legal phraseology, which has Nomine poense. In the nature of a penalty. 1.

In the civil law. A condition annexed to a legacy or devise, for the purpose of coercing the person to comply with the condition, was said to be nomine pcence. 2.

In the common law. The term is applied to the penalty fixed by a covenant in a lease for non-performance of its conditions; generally, a forfeiture of a certain sum of money.