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NEWSPAPER POLICY

Sold by newspaper advertisements with the aim of increasing circulation, this is a specific type of limited health insurance policy.

NINETY-DAY LETTER

Following an audit, the recipient has 90 days to respond to a tax deficiency or other discrepancy as detailed in this type of notice sent from the IRS. Tax collection activities are

NO FAULT COMPENSATION

Without having to prove any other party was at fault in an accident, an aggrieved party is awarded compensation. Workmen’s compensation is no-fault compensation. It is a legal rule in some jurisdictions.

NO-DOC LOAN

To complete this type of mortgage loan application, no supporting documentation is required. The interest rate common to such a loan is typically higher than full or reduced documentation loans. The borrower

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 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

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

N A

An abbreviation for “non allocatur,” it is not allowed.

NANTISSEMENT

in French law, Is the contract of pledge; if of a movable, it is called “gage;” and if of an immovable, it is called “antichrHse.” Brown.

NATIVUS

Lat. In old English law, a native; specifically, one born into a condition of servitude; a born serf or villein.

NAUTICUM FCENUS

Lat. In the civil law. Nautical or maritime interest; an ex- traordinary rate of interest agreed to be paid for the loan of money on the hazard of a voyage ; corresponding

NE RECIPIATUR

Lat That it be not received. A caveat or warning given to a law officer, by a party in a cause, not to re- ceive the next proceedings of his opponent. 1

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