Monday, December 31, 2012

BLACKS LAW 1 & 4 ED: NOMEN DEFINITION

Blacks Law First ed.
NOMEN. In the civil law. A name; the name, style, or designation of a person.
Properly, the name showing to what gens
or tribe he belonged, as distinguished from his own individual name, (the prenomen,) horn his surname or family name, {cogno-men,) 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. Nomen est quasi rei notamen. A name is, as it were, the note of a thing. 11 Coke, 20.

 Blacks Law Fourth ed.
NOMEN. Lat. In the civil law, a name; the name, style, or designation of a person. Properly,
the name showing to what gens or tribe he belonged, as distinguished from his own individual name, (the praenomen,) 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.

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