Notour
Defined in 4 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910), Kinney (1893)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
In Scotch law. Open; notorious. A notour bankrupt is a debtor who, being under diligence by horning and capwards found insolvent by court of sessions. Bell, Diet.; Burton, Law of Scotland, 601. NOVA CONSTITUTIO FUTURIS FORmam imponere debet, non praeteritis. A new enactment ought to impose form upon what is to come, not upon what is past. 2 Inst. 292; Broom, Leg. Max. (3d London Ed.) 33, 36; T. Jones, 108; 2 Show. 16; 6 Mees. & W. 285; 7 Mees. & W. 536; 2 Mass. 122, 2 Gall. (U. S.) 139; 2 N. Y. 245; 7 Johns. (N. Y.) 503 et seq., — ^where this rule is fully considered and the authorities reviewed.
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
In Scotch Law. Open; notorious.
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
A Law Dictionary and Glossary
George C. Kinney · 1893
sc.
In Scots law. Open; public; notorious.