Category: N

In the civil law. Persons who have the management and care of hos- pitals for paupers.

fact; the power or authority of a judex; the power of hearing causes and of pronounc- ing sentence, without any degree of jurisdiction. Calvin.

(Latest Compilation.) The title of a collection of Spanish law compiled by order of Don Carlos IV. in 1805. 1 White, Recop. 355.

No; none. A law French negative particle, commencing many phrases.

A will which depends merely upon oral evidence, having been declared or dictated by the testator in his last sickness before a sufficient number of witnesses, and afterwards reduced to writing. Ex

An abbreviation for “nota bene,” mark well, observe; also “nulla bona,” no goods.

A common abbreviation of “nar- ratio,” (q. v.) A declaration in an action. Jacob.

The name of an ancient collection of original writs, accompanied with brief commeuts and explanations, compiled iu the time of Edward 111. This is commonly called “Old Natura Breviuin,” (or “O. N.

supersede the master of the ship with reference to -which the inquiry is held, to discharge any of the seamen, to decide questions as to wages, send home offenders for trial, or

L. Lat. The statute 35 Edw. I.

Controlling force; irresistible compulsion; a power or Impulse so great that it admits no choice of conduct. When it is said that an act is done “under necessity,” it may be. in

A place near; an adjoining or surrounding district; a more immediate vicinity; vicinage. See Langley v. Barnstead, 03 N. II. 240; Madison v. Mor- ristown Gaslight Co., 05 N. J. Eq. 350,

The state of a nation which takes no part between two or more other nations at war. U. S. v. The Three Friends, 160 U. S. 1, 17 Sup. Ct 495, 41

A member of a secret association, (especially in Russia,) which is devoted to the destruction of the present political, religious, and social institutions. Webster.

Fr. In French law. Freight. The same with “fret.” Ord. Mar. liv. 3, tit. 3.

One who has been nominated or proposed for an office.

Not twice for the same; that is, a man shall not be twice tried for the same crime. This maxim of the civil law (Code, 9, 2, 9, 11) expresses the same

A writ not to distrain. Non dubitatur, etsi specialiter venditor evictionem non promiserit, re evic- ta, ex empto competere actionem. It is certain that, although the vendor has not given a special

See JOINDER.

Lat. If, In the proceedings in an action at law, the plaintiff neglects to take any of those steps which he ought to take within the time prescribed by the practice of