Category: N

The freight of passengers in a ship. Johnson; Webster.

Lat. In American practice. A writ similar to that of ne exeat regno, (q. v..) available to the plaintiff in a civil suit, under some circum- stances, when the defendant is about

Things indispensable, or things proper and useful, for the sustenance of human life. This is a relative term, and its meaning will contract or expand according to the situation and social condition

Lat. In the civil law. Literally, a doing of business or businesses. A species of spontaneous agency, or an interference by one in the affairs of another, in his absence, from benevolence

In Scotch law. A grandson. Skene.

A vile, base person, or sluggard; chicken- hearted. Spelman.

By night. An abolished writ which issued out of chancery, and re- turned to the queen’s bench, for the prostration of inclosures, etc.

holds only In the name or for the benefit of another, whose name he discloses by the plea, in order that the plaintiff may bring his action against such other. See Mackeld.

A failure of appearance ; the omission of the defendant to appear within the time limited.

Neglect, failure, or refusal to deliver goods, on the part of a carrier, vendor, bailee, etc.

Want of ability to do an act in law, as to sue. A plea founded upon such cause. Cowell.

The neglect, failure, or refusal of payment of a debt or evidence of debt when due.

Lat. He did not hold. This is the name of a plea in bar in replevin, by which tlie plaintiff alleges that he did not hold in manner and form as averred,

Opposed to exceptional; that state wherein any body most exactly com- ports in all its parts with the abstract idea thereof, and is most exactly fitted to perform its proper functions, is

Lat. In Roman law. A natural child or a person of spurious birth.

Lat. In the civil law. A step-mother.

Lat. A naked pact; a bare agreement; a promise or undertaking made without any consideration for it Justice v. Lang. 42 N. Y. 493, 1 Am. Rep. 576; Wardell v. Williams, 62

An acre of land. Spelman.

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.