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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

In Scotch law. Open; notorious. A notour bankrupt is a debtor who, being under diligence by horning and caption of his creditor, retires to sanctuary or absconds or defends by force, and is afterwards found insolvent by the court of session. Bell.

A Law Dictionary and Glossary

George C. Kinney · 1893

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In Scots law. Open; public; notorious.