NOMEN

Lat. In the civil law. A ·name; the name, style, or designation ·of a person. Properly, the name showing to what genll or tribe he belonged, as distinguished from his own individual name, (the prwnomen,) 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 cla or genus of ·persons or objects. A debt or a debtor. Ains worth; Calvin. -Nomen collect i vum, A collective name or term; a term expre ive of a cla ; a term including several of the same kind; a term expre ive of the plural, as well as singular, number.-Nomen generale. A 'general name; the name of a genus. Fleta, lib. 4, c. 19, § 1.- Nomen generali imum, A name of the most general kind; a name or term of the most.general meaning. By the name of "land,'' which ' is nomen generali imum, everything terrestrial will pa . 2 BI. Comm. 19; 3 BI.· Comm. 172. -Nomen juris. A name of the law; a technical legal term.-NoDien transcriptitium. See [s. 827]