Category: N

Neglect to use. Neglect to use a franchise; neglect to exercise an office. 2 Bl. Comm. 153. Neglect or omission to use an easement or other right. 3 Kent, Comm. 448. A

These words, indorsed on a bill of indictment by a grand jury, have the same effect as the indorsement “Not a true bill” or “Ignoramus.”

Lat. Knowledge; information ; intelligence; notice. Notitia dieitur a noscendo; et notitia non debet clandicare. Notice is named from a knowledge being had; and notice ought not to halt, [i. e

Lat. Novelty; newness; a new thing. Novitas non tam ntilitate prodest qnam novitate perturbat. A novelty does not benefit so much by its utility as it disturbs by its novelty. Jenk. Cent.

Naught; of no validity or effect Usually coupled with the word “void;” as “null and void.” Forrester v. Boston, etc., Min. Co., 29 Mont. 397, 74 Pac. 10S8; Hume v. Eagon, 73

Lat. In the civil and old English law. A fair. In nundinis et mer- catis, In fairs and markets. Bract, fol. 56.

An abbreviation for “Northern District.”

Lat. One of the common law names lor a plaintiff’s count or declaration, as being a narrative of the facts on which he relies.

The juristic meaning of this term does not differ from the vernacular, except in the cases where it is used in op position to the term “legal;” and then it means proceeding

In the civil law. The master or commander of a ship; the captain of a man-of-war.

L. Fr. Did not release. Where the defendant had pleaded a release, this was the proper replication by way of traverse.

The Latin sentence, “Miserere mei, Deus,” was so called, because the reading of it was made a test for those who claimed benefit of clergy.

All abbreviated form of docket entry, meaning that, by agreement, neither of the parties will further appear iu court iu that suit. Gendron v. Hovey, 9S Me. 139, 56 Atl. 583.

A species of traverse which occurs in actions of debt on simple contract, and is resorted to when the defendant means to deny In point of fact the existence of any express

Lat Nothing. A contracted form of “nihil,” which see.

Fr. In French marine law. Affreightment. Ord. Mar. liv. 3, tit. 1.

(1) A collection of canons and imperial laws relative or conformable thereto. The first nomocanon was made by Johannes Scholastlcus in 554. Photius, patriarch of Constantinople, in 883, compiled another nomocanon, or

The omission or neglect of him who ought to claim his right within the time limited by law; as within a year and a day where a continual claim was required, or

Lat. A plea by way of traverse, which occurs in debt on bond or other specialty, and also in covenant. It denies that the deed mentioned in the declaration is the defendant’s

Not judicial; not legal. Dies non juridicus is a day on which legal proceedings cannot be had.