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eo nomine

[ ey-oh noh-mi-ne; English ee-oh nom-i-nee ]

adverb

, Latin.
  1. by that name.


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Example Sentences

The reader will perceive, that a distinction was maintained, between the slave trade, eo nomine, and the holding of slaves, inseparably connected as it was, with the incidents of sale and transfer from man to man, in towns and villages.

The legislation against betting eo nomine began in 1853.

The legal character of this transaction is summed up in a well-known passage in the Digest:—Interdictum de precariis merito introductum est, quia nulla eo nomine juris civilis actio esset, magis enim ad donationes et beneficii causam, quam ad negotii contracti spectat precarii conditio.2 This may be paraphrased as follows:—The precarium tenant may employ the interdict against a third party, because he cannot use the ordinary civil action, his holding being not a matter of business but rather of favour and kindness.

But bockle and brownie are probably both foreign importations borrowed from books, though a ‘brownie’ eo nomine has been reported from Sennen within the last twenty years.

The original office of the dean of the Arches may now be regarded as extinct, though the title is still popularly used, for no dean of the Arches has been appointed eo nomine for several centuries, and by an act of 1838 bishops have jurisdiction over all peculiars within their diocese.

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