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Lat. No goods. The name of the return made by the sheriff to a writ of execution, when he has not found any goods of the defendant within his jurisdiction on which

Traffic at fairs and markets; any buying and selling. Nunquam crescit ex postfacto prae- teriti delicti sestimatio. The character of a past offense is never aggravated by a subsequent act or matter.

An abbreviation for “notary public,” (Rowley v. Berrlan, 12 111. 200;) also for “nisi prius,” (q. v.)

A countor; a pleader who draws nans. &crvicns narrator, a serjeant at law. Fleta, 1. 2, c. 37.

laws” because a knowledge of them may be attained merely by the light of reason, from the fact of their essential agreeableness with the constitution of human nature; while, on the contrary,

Capable of being navigated; that may be navigated or passed over in ships or vessels. But the term is generally understood in a more restricted sense, viz., subject to the ebb and

L. Fr. (Never seised of a dowable estate.) In pleading. The general Issue in the action of dower unde nil habet, by which the tenant denies that the demandant’s husband was ever

An autopsy, or post-mortem examination of a human body.

Lat. No one dissenting; no one voting in the negative. A phrase used to indicate the unanimous consent of a court or legislative body to a judgment, resolution, vote, or motion. Commonly

222; Veazie v. Marrett, 6 Allen (Mass.) 372.

Lat. Unless. The word is often affixed, as a kind of elliptical expression, to the words “rule,” “order,” “decree,” “judgment.” or “confirmation,” to indicate that the adjudication spoken of is one which

admission elsewhere. Com. v. Tilton. S Mete. (Mass.) 232. Not available as an estoppel in a civil action. Com. v. Ilorton, 9 Pick. (Mass.) 20G.

A treatise or description of laws.

A non-commissioned officer of the army or militia is a subordinate officer who holds his rank, not by commission from the executive authority of the state or nation, but by appointment by

Lat. He did not make it. A plea in an action of assumpsit on a promis- sory note. 3 Man. & G. 446.

Not subject to be levied upon. Non-leviable assets are assets upon which an execution cannot be levied. Farmers’ F. Ins. Co. v. Conrad, 102 Wis. 387, 78 N. W. 582. Non licet

A writ, addressed to a bishop, charging him not to molest a clerk employed in the royal service, by reason of his non- residence; iu which case he is to be discharged.

Lat. He (the defendant in a criminal case) will not contest it. A plea legally equivalent to that of guilty, being a variation of the form “nolo contendere,” (q. v.,) and sometimes

In English practice. A plea of the general issue by a defendant in a civil action, when he intends to give special matter in evidence by virtue of some act or acts

The state of being notorious or universally well known.