Excerpt from On Surnames and the Rules of Law Affecting Their Change: With Comments on the Correspondence of the Lord-Lieutenant of Monmouthshire and Certain Officials Respecting a Change of Surname Walden o. Holman [6, Modern Reports, 15, Viner's Abr. Misnomer, 409, 414, and 14. Viner's Abr. Grant, 32, 33. The name is the mark or sign, or the sound of such mark or sign, which distinguishes or differences particular persons when it is seen or heard. The law does not nicely require to know what a man may or might with propriety be called, but, dealing only with the ordinary means of recognition, demands and is satisfied with the name of reputation: it asks, by what name is the person known Even in cases of mistake: Nil facit error nominis enm de corpore rel persona constat. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.