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née

née (nay), adj. [French] (Of a woman) born. • This term is sometimes used after a married woman’s name to indicate her maiden name (Mrs. Robert Jones, née Thatcher). The masculine form (not common in English) is né. — Also spelled nee.

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namium vetitum

namium vetitum (nay-mee-[schwa]m vet-[schwa]-t[schwa]m), n. [Law Latin “taking prohibited”] Hist. A refused or prohibited taking or redelivery. • This term is most often associated with the circumstance in which a lord’s bailiff distrained animals or goods, and was ordered by the lord to take them to an unknown place or otherwise not to redeliver them

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