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NIELSEN RATINGS

An audience’s viewing depicted in this specific published survey. Media outlets base their marketing to advertising clients based on these ratings. The ratings express the viewing audience size and scope as viewers

NO CONTEST

The accused will not contest the facts on which the charge is based as a criminal case plea. It is not an admission of guilt. It is generally aimed at preventing lawsuits

NOA

Notify On Arrival. A definitive, mandated instruction to the carrier by the consignor to notify the consignee at shipment arrival.

NECESSARY DILIGENCE

That degree of diligence which a person placed in a particularsituation must exercise in order to entitle him to the protection of the law in respect torights or claims growing out of

NATIONAL DOMAIN

A term sometimes applied to the aggregate of the property owned directly by a nation. Civ. Code La. I’.tOO. art. 4NO.

N USURPATIO

Lat. In the civil law. 1’he interruption of a usucaption, by some act on the part of the real owner. Calvin.

N VOUCHER

A receipt, acquittance, or release, which may serve as evidence of pay- ment or discharge of a debt, or to certify the correctness of accounts. An account- book containing the acquittances or

N WAINABLE

Ill old records. That may lie plowed or manured; tillable. Cowell; Blount.

NATURAL ALLEGIANCE

In English law. That kind of allegiance which is due from all men born within tlie king’s dominions, immediately upon their birth, which is intrinsic and perpetual, and cannot be divested by

NOTICE OF APPEARANCE

A notice given bv defendant to a plaintiff that he appears in the action in person or by attorney.

NATURAL BOUNDARY

Any formation or product of nature (as opposed to structures or erections made by man) which may serve to define and fix one or more of the lines inclosing an estate or

NATURAL CHILD

A bastard ; a child born out of lawful wedlock. But in a statute declaring that adopted shall have all the rights of “natural” children. the word “natural” was used in the

NONSENSE

Unintelligible matter iu a written agreement or will.

NOTARIAL

Taken by a notary; performed by a notary in his official capacity; belonging to a notary and evidencing his official character, as, a notarial seal.

NOVATION

Novation is the substitution of a new debt or obligation for an existing one. Civ. Code Cal.

NULLUM TEMPUS ACT

In English law. A name given to the statute 3 Geo. III. c. 16, because that act. in contravention of the maxim “Nullum tempus occurrit regi,” (no lapse of time liars the

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