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NINA LOAN

A borrower avoids disclosing income and personal assets with this specific reduced documentation mortgage loan. This mortgage type typically has an interest rate higher than market. To secure the loan, employment is

NO EVIDENCE

Admissible evidence absence or insufficiency to establish one or more essential case elements that the party having to bring proof must provide. The opposing party can ask the court to dismiss the

NODE

1. Device role to receive, send, or process data in a telecommunication network. 2. Point or nexus for two or more interfacing devices or two or more line or link terminals. 3.

NOYAU DUR

When the french have longstanding business with a company they expect this form of loyalty.

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 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

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.

N

An abbreviation of “Novella),” the Novels of Justinian, used in citing them. Tayl. Civil Law, 24. In English, a common and familiar abbreviation for the word “north,” as used in maps, charts,

NANTES, EDICT OF

A celebrated law for the security of Protestants, made by Henry IV. of France, and revoked by Louis XIV., October 2, 1685.

NATIVE

A natural-born subject or citizen ; a denizen by birth ; one who owes his domicile or citizenship to the fact of his birth within the country referred to. The term may

NAUTICAL

ertaining to ships or to the art of navigation or the business of carriage by sea.

NE LUMINIBUS OFFICIATUR

Lat. In the civil law. The name of a servitude which restrains the owner of a house from making such erections as obstruct the light of the adjoining house. Dig. 8, 4,

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