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Definition of Misnaming
1. misname [v] - See also: misname
Lexicographical Neighbors of Misnaming
Literary usage of Misnaming
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Succinct View of the History of Mortmain and the Statutes Relative to by Anthony Highmore (1809)
"Notwithstanding the ancient rule, that uncertainty misnaming nukes void the grant,
yet the misnaming and uncer- an^w'am'ot' tainty of expression, ..."
2. Superstitions of the Highlands & Islands of Scotland by John Gregorson Campbell (1900)
"misnaming a Person.—If a person be accidentally misnamed, as eg being called John
when his name is Donald, he who made the mistake, on observing it, ..."
3. The American and English Encyclopedia of Law by John Houston Merrill, Charles Frederic Williams, Thomas Johnson Michie, David Shephard Garland (1893)
"... it may be described by either.4 The warrant is not invalidated by so misnaming
one street in the description of the place to be searched, as to make the ..."
4. A History of Municipal Government in Liverpool: From the Earliest Times to by Ramsay Muir, Edith May Platt (1906)
"And notwithstanding the misnaming or not rightly naming of ... And notwithstanding
any defect or defects in misnaming or not naming any tenant, ..."
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