Nominate
Defined in 5 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Black's (1910), Black's (1891), Abbott (1879)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
To appoint. Applied in this sense to the designation by a person of one to act as fiduciary or personal representative. Thus it is the customary term in designating the executor by a testator. To make a candidate for election. See "Candidate."
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
A Dictionary of Law
Henry Campbell Black · 1891
To propose foran appointment; to designate for an office, a privilege, & living, ete.
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
To propose for an appointment; to designate for an office, a privilege, a living, &c. Nomination: the act of designating or proposing persons for appointment to offices, livings in the church, &c. Also, sometimes, and particularly in the plural, the names or persons designated; as in the expression, the president sent in nominations; the nominations were confirmed. The rights of nominating and of presenting to a living are distinct, and may reside in different persons. Presentation is the offering a clerk to the bishop. Nomination is the offering a clerk to the person who has heirs that, whenerer the church becomes vacant, he will present such a person as A or his heirs shall nominate. He who has the right of nomination is, to most purposes, considered as the patron of the church. Broion. i