actiones nominata

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actiones nominata - Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) :

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