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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

An abbreviation of “Novella),” the Novels of Justinian, used in citing them. Tayl. Civil Law, 24. In English, a common and familiar abbreviation for the word “north,” as used in maps, charts,

A celebrated law for the security of Protestants, made by Henry IV. of France, and revoked by Louis XIV., October 2, 1685.

A natural-born subject or citizen ; a denizen by birth ; one who owes his domicile or citizenship to the fact of his birth within the country referred to. The term may

ertaining to ships or to the art of navigation or the business of carriage by sea.

Lat. In the civil law. The name of a servitude which restrains the owner of a house from making such erections as obstruct the light of the adjoining house. Dig. 8, 4,

As used in jurisprudence, the word “necessary” does not always import an absolute physical necessity, so strong that one thing, to which another may be termed “necessary,” cannot exist without that other.

The word “negro” meaus a black mau, one descended from the African race, and does not commonly include a mulatto. Felix v. State, 18 Ala. 720. But the laws of the different

A name given to the English house of commons in the time of Henry YIII. NEURASTHENIA

In old English law. A woman born in vassalage; a bondwoman. Housatonic It. Co., 03 Conn. 258, 27 Atl. 1117; Wilbur v. Maynard, 0 Colo. 4S0.

Lat. In old English law. A nuisance. A’ocnmcntum ilamnosum, a nuisance occasioning loss or damage. Hoeumcntum injiirlosuin. an injurious nuisance. For the latter only a remedy was given. Bract, fol. 221.

Lat. A nominative case grammatically unconnected with the rest of the sentence in which it stands. The opening words in the ordinary form of a deed inter partes, “This indenture,” etc., down

The general issue in the action of assumpsit; being a plea by which the defendant avers that “he did not undertake” or promise as alleged.

L. Lat. He did not demise. A plea resorted to where a plaintiff declared upon a demise without stating the indenture in an action of debt for rent. Also, a plea in

exempted from the jurisdiction of the justices of the peace for the county.

In old English law. Default in not replevying land in due time, when the same was taken by the king upon a default. The consequence thereof (loss of seisin) was abrogated by

The vacation between two terms of a court.

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

Lat. Denunciation of, or protest against, a new work. This was a species of remedy in the civil law, available to a person who thought his rights or his property were threatened