Legal Definition and Related Resources of Identitate nominis
Meaning of Identitate nominis
(Lat.) In English law. The name of a writ which lies for a person taken upon a capias or exigent, and committed to prison, for another man of the same name. This writ directs the sheriff to inquire whether he be the person against whom the action was brought, and if not, then to discharge him. Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 267. In practice, a party in this condition would be relieved by habeas corpus.
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Concept of “Identitate Nominis”
Traditional meaning of identitate nominis in English (with some legal use of this latin concept in England and the United States in the XIX Century) [1]: (in Latin) A writ that lay for him who upon a capias or an exigent was taken and committed to prison for another man of the same name.
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- Based on A Concise Law Dictionary of Words, Phrases and Maxims, “Identitate Nominis”, Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1911, United States. It is also called the Stimson’s Law dictionary. This term and/or definition may be absolete.
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