Category: N

NEGLIGENCE. The omission to do something which a reasonable man, guided by those considerations which ordinarily regulate the conduct of human affairs, would do. or doing something which a prudent and reasonable

Nemo punitur sine injuria, facto, seu defalta. No one is punished unless for some wrong, act, or default. 2 Inst. 287. Nemo qui condemnare potest, ab- solvere non potest. No one who

Lat. In Roman law. Bound; bound persons. A term applied to such insolvent debtors as were delivered up to their creditors, by whom they might be held in bondage until their debts

See FUND.

Titular; existing in name only; not real or substantial; connected with the transaction or proceeding in name only, not in interest.

In legal parlance, this term denotes the absence of opportunities for sexual intercourse between husbaud and wife; or the absence of such intercourse. Non accipi debent verba in demonstra- tionem falsam, quae

A uou-apparent or discontinuous easement. Fetters v. Humphreys, 18 N. J. Eq. 202. See EASEMENT.

Lat. He did not break the contract. The name of a plea sometimes pleaded in the action of covenant, and intended as a general issue, but held to be a bad plea;

A writ that lay for a person who was molested contrary to the king’s protection granted to him. Reg. Orig. 184. Non nasci, et natum mori, paria sunt. Not to be born,

A writ prohibiting an ordinary to take a pecuniary mulct imposed on a clerk of the sovereign for non- residence. Beg. Writ. 59.

The neglect or failure of a person to do some act which he ought to do. The term is not generally used to denote a breach of contract, but rather the failure

These words, when written across the face of a negotiable instrument, operate to destroy its negotiability. Durr v. State, 59 Ala. 24.

New counts. The collection called “Novce Narrationes” contains pleadings iu actions during the reign BL.LAW DICT.(2D ED.)

Hurtful; offensive; offensive to the smell. Rex v. White, 1 Burrows, 337. The word “noxious” includes the complex Idea both of insalubrity and offensiveness. Id.

L. Lat. No award. The name of a plea in an action on an arbitration bond, for not fulfilling the award, by which the defendant traverses the allegation that there was an

Pertaining to marriage; constituting marriage; used or done in marriage. Nuptias non concnbitns sed consensus facit. Co. Litt. 33. Not cohabitation but consent makes the marriage.

As a term of jurisprudence, this word is equivalent to bare, wanting in nec- essary conditions, incomplete, as a naked con- trad. (mulum pactum,) i. e., a contract devoid of consideration, and

In old records. A native place. Cowell.

Lat. Born, as distinguished from nasciturus, about to be born. Ante natus, one born before a particular person or event, c. ti.. before the death of his father, before a political revolution,

A sum paid to government as an acknowledgment for a grant of lands, or any public otiice. Enc. Lond.