Nomen nescio

Noun Nominandum (Latin for, [ yet ] 'll discuss name ') is a Latin phrase that today in the sense of the name is here to use ' will be used. They called in references, in the nature and organization similar contexts (events, locations, etc. ) an unknown, later to be named or deliberately not mentioned person.

The saying goes in its present form back to a popular etymological misread the ancient abbreviation N. N. ( N. n ). The original tender for the abbreviation comes from the ancient Roman form process in which they represented a fictitious name the defendant and Numerius negidius or Numerius Negidius was. Next to it stands as an interpretation of the abbreviation also nomen nescio ( means, I know the name is not ').

Term origin and history

One of the basic principles of the ancient Roman legal system, which plays a crucial role in today's case-law, was to administer justice without respect of persons. The court should be abstract, and basically deal with the legal situation between the parties and are not influenced by attitudes to actual persons. The contending parties were therefore referred to and addressed with commonly used fictitious names instead of their proper names. These fictitious names have been regularly used in questions to the superior authority or legal scholars and in the relevant information and regulations.

In the Roman form process Numerius Negidius is always used fictitious name for the defendant, which is the German for ' the defendant. " It is a play on words, the legal position of the defendant, starting from a process for compensation, underlies (of numerare include ' pay ' and negare, [ something ] deny ',' refuse '), and does so much as one who refuses to pay '.

In the same way, the applicant was assigned the fictitious name Aulus Agerius. Aulus is, however, rare, first name, and is Agerius ( ' do, operate, apply ') to the verb agere ajar; because causam transient ( ' set in motion the contentious procedure ') had the plaintiff itself

Designated areas affected by the dispute or third parties, the third party concerned is with the fictitious name Titius or Lucius Titius ( then commonly abbreviated L. Titius ) mar. with the feminine form Titia.

In the court transcripts, the fictitious names were often reproduced in abbreviated form. So, from Numerius Negidius ( Numerius negidius ) the notation N. N. ( N. n ).

Among the new interpretations today has the noun nominandum ( the name is still to name ') most prevailed, followed by the noun notum ( the name is known ', please complete: but will not be disclosed). A further call for the abbreviation N. N. ( N. n ) is nescio noun for the name I do not know '.

Contemporary use

The abbreviation N. N. is used in texts and announcements as placeholders for names of persons who are not known at the time of printing or not (yet) be retained. This applies to both texts, which serve only as a template, as well as printing and other publications with notice character.

The abbreviation in this sense is as follows using:

• In the academic life at the announcement of courses which are to be held by a job holder, even if this indeed has already been established, but has not yet been appointed or set. It is hereby made ​​to the needs and intricacies of personal legal processes and related feelings into account.
• On the occasion of sporting events during the registration of participants, it is not yet clear which athletes ( a team or a club or national association ) takes part in a competition, for example, because it is yet to be determined by elimination or selection. In the course of the event this placeholder must generally - will be replaced by the real name of the athletes - in line with the abbreviation.
• In law, particularly in civil litigation, in pleadings of the parties to the dispute as a placeholder for the name of a not yet named and therefore yet to be named witnesses. Thus, the engagement of an witnesses is asserted, whose identity is not yet known or even should not be divulged.
• In organizational charts of companies and government agencies in currently unoccupied (Plan ) sites. This corresponds to the designation vacant or open in English- org.
• When publishing chess games sometimes instead of the name of one of the players involved when its name (no longer) is known, for example, the contracting simultaneous game or historical games.