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Lat. In old English practice. A prohibitory writ com manding a lord not to demand from the tenant more services than were justly due by the tenure under which his ancestors held.

Lat Necessary; unavoidable; indispensable; not admitting of choice or the action of the will; needful.

Lat. In tho civil law. A transacter or manager of business ; a person voluntarily constituting himself agent for another; one who, without any mandate or authority, assumes to take charge of

Clear of anything extraneous; with all deductions, such as charges, expenses, discounts, commissions, taxes, etc.; free from expenses. St. John v. Erie R. Co., 22 Wall. 148, 22 L Ed. 743; Scott

The daughter of one’s brother or sister. Ambl. 514. See NEPUEW.

Entertainment of meat and drink for so many nights. Domesday.

An appointment or designation of a person to fill an office or dis- charge a duty. The act of suggesting or proposing a person by name as a candidate for an office.

and holding of such certificate. At most its legal effect is a stipulation against liability from further assessment or taxation after the entire subscription of one hundred per cent, shall have been

Lat. He does not detain. The name of the general Issue in the action of detinue. 1 Tidd, Pr. 045; Berlin Mach. Works v. Alabama City Furniture Co., 112 Ala. 48S, 20

In English law. A clause of a charter of a municipal borough, whereby the borough is NON INTROMITTEN DO 826

Neglect, failure, or refusal to do or perform an act stipulated to be done. Failure to keep the terms of a contract or covenant, in respect to acts or doings agreed upon.

A plea in a real action, by which the defendant asserts, either as to the whole or as to some part of the land mentioned in the plaintiff’s declaration, that he does

The tongue in which several formal proceedings of state in England are still carried on. The language, having remained the same since the date of the Conquest, at which it was introduced

by direct information, either written or oral, from those who are cognizant of the fact communicated. Baltimore v. Whittington, 78 Md. 23 1. 27 Atl. 9S4. Implied notice is one of the

Know all men by these presents. Formal words used at the commencement of deeds of release in the Latin forms.

d. 5, 14, 1; Broom, Max. 676. NUEVA RECOPIEACION. (New Compilation.) The title of a code of Spanish law, promulgated in the year 1567. Schm. Civil Law, Introd. 79-81.

Lat. Now for then. A phrase applied to acts allowed to be done after the time when they should be done, with a retroactive effect, i. e., with the same effect as

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,

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

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