Category: N

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.

The clear weight or quantity of an article, without the bag, box, keg, or other thing in which it may be enveloped.

Lat. In the civil law. Carelessness; inattention; the omission of proper care or forethought. The term is not exactly equivalent to our “negligence,” in- asmuch as it was not any ncgligentia, but

L. Fr. Not Litt

Nearest; closest; immediately following. See Green v. McLaren, 7 Ga. 107; State v. Asbell, 57 Kan. 398, 46 Pac. 770; German Security Bank v. McGarry, 106 Ala. 633, 17 South. 704.

This is the English equivalent of the Latin term “nulla bona.” being the form of the return made by a sheriff or constable, charged with an execution, when he has found no

To propose for an appointment ; to designate for an office, a privilege, a living, etc.

A forbearance from action; the contrary to act.

Lat. Not injured. This is a plea in an action of debt on an indemnity bond, or bond conditioned “to keep the plaintiff harmless and indemnified,” etc. It is in the nature

1. The refusal of one state or nation to have commercial dealings with another; similar to an embargo, (q. v.) 2. The absence of access, communication, or sexual relations between husband and

Not negotiable; not capable of passing title or property by indorsement and delivery. Non obligat lex nisi promulgata. A law is not obligatory unless it be promulgated. Non observata forma, infertur adnul-

Lat. He did not submit. A plea to an action of debt, on a bond to perform an award, to the effect that the defendant did not submit to the arbitration.

In old ecclesiastical law. A nun. Nonnus, a monk. Spelman.

In civil and old European law. Short-hand characters or marks of contrac- tion, in which the emperors’ secretaries took down what they dictated. Spelman; Calvin.

Land newly plowed and converted into tillage, and which has not been tilled before within the memory of man; also fallow land.

Lat In the civil law. Marriageable; one who Is of a proper age to be married.

L. Lat In pleading. The name of a plea to an action of debt upon an obligation for the performance of an award, by which the defendant denies that he submitted to