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NECESSITAS EST LEX

does not affect its negotiability. Fleckner v. Bank of United States, 8 Wheat. 338, 5 L. Ed. 031.

NEFASTUS

Lat. Inauspicious. Applied. in the Roman law, to a day on which it was unlawful to open the courts or administer justice. Ncgatio conclnsionis est error in lege. Wing. 208. The denial

NO AWARD

The name of a pica in an action on an award, by which the defendant traverses the allegation that an award was made.

NOMINA TRANSCRIPTITIA

In Roman law. Obligations contracted by literw (i. c.. Uteris ohligationes) were so called because they arose from a peculiar transfer (transcriptio) from the creditor’s day-book (adversaria) into his ledger, (codex.)

NON-CONFORMIST

In English law. One who refuses to comply with others; one who refuses to join in the established forms of worship. Non-conformists are of two sorts: (1) Such as absent themselves from

NON IOBC IN FtEDERA VENI

I did not agree to these terms. Non impedit clausula derogatoria quo minus ad eadem potestate res dissol- vantur a qua constituuntur. A derogatory clause does not impede things from being dissolved

NON-MAIL ABLE

A term applied to all letters and parcels which are by law exclud ed from transportation in the United States mails, whether on account of the size of the package, the nature

NON-SANE

As “sane,” when applied to the mind, means whole, sound, in a health- ful state, “non-sane” must mean not whole, not sound, not in a healthful state; that is, broken, impaired, shattered,

NONAGIUM, or NONAGE

A ninlh part of movables which was paid to the clergy on the death of persons in their parish, and claimed on pretense of being dis tributed to pious uses. Blount.

NOT PROVEN

A verdict in a Scotch criminal trial, to the effect that the guilt of the accused is not made out, though his innocence is not clear.

NOTOUR

In Scotch law. Open; notorious. A notour bankrupt is a debtor who, being under diligence by horning and caption of his creditor, retires to sanctuary or absconds or defends by force, and

NOXALIS ACTIO

Lat. In the civil law. An action which lay against the master of a slave, for some offense (as theft or robbery) committed or damage or injury done by the slave, which

NUPER OBIIT

Lat. In practice. The name of a writ (now abolished) which, in the English law, lay for a sister co-heiress dispossessed by her coparcener of lands and tenements whereof their father, brother,

NABOB

Originally the governor of a province under the Mogul government of Hin- dostan, whence it became a mere title of any man of high rank, upon whom it was con- ferred without

NATALE

The state and condition of a man acquired by birth.

NATURALIZE

To confer citizenship upon an alien ; to make a foreigner the same, in respect to rights and privileges, as if he were a native citizen or subject.

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