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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

Lat. Not of sound mind. A generic term applicable to all insane persons, of whatsoever specific type the insanity may be and from whatever cause arising, provided there be an entire loss

L. Lat. In old English law. A taking; a distress. Spelman. Things, goods, or animals taken by way of distress. Simplex namium, a simple taking or pledge. Bract, fol. 2056.

See INTERNATIONAL LAW.

Lat In the civil and maritime law. A sailor; one who works a ship. Calvin. Any one who Is on board a ship for the purpose of navigating her. The employer of

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

In English law. The title of the third of the three kings-at-arms, or pro- vincial heralds.

In legal proceedings, and In respect to public matters, this word is gen- erally, if not universally, used as importing a notice given by some person, whose duty it was to give