nobile officium (cassh)

(Lat.] Scots Law : The power of the Court of Se ion in questions of equity whereby it interposes to modify or abate the rigor of the law, and to a certain extent to give aid where no remedy could be had in a court confined to strict law. Nob-1-11, subst . [See def.] Leopold Nobili, an Italian physicist (1784-1835). (See compounds.) Nobili's colored-rings, s . pl . Nobili's thermopile or thermo-electric bat