Actiones nominatae

ACTIONES NOMINATAE. Formerly the English courts of chancery would make nowrits when there was no precedent, and the cases for which there wereprecedents were called actiones nominatoe. The statute of Westm. 2, c. 24,gave chancery authority to form new writs in consimili casu. Hence arosethe action on the case. Bac. Ab. Court of Chancery, A; 17, Serg. R. 195.