Category: N

In English law. Persons who refuse to take the oaths, required by law, to support the government. Non jus ex regula, sed regula ex jure. The law does not arise from the

One who is not a dweller within some jurisdiction in question; not an inhabitant of the state of the forum. Gardner v. Meeker, 1G!) 111. 40, 48 N. E. 307; Nagel v.

Inability to sue. 5 Bell, App. Cas. 172. Non valet confirmatio, nisi ille, qui coniirmat, sit in possessione rei vel juris unde fieri debet confirmatio; et code in modo, nisi ille cui

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.

Lat. In the civil law. This term denoted any damage or injury done to persons or property by au unlawful act committed by a man’s slave or animal. An action for damages

Nothing ; no proceeding ; an act or proceeding in a cause which the op- posite party may treat as though it had not taken place, or which lias absolutely no legal

Lat. Never indebted. The name of a plea in an action of indebitatus assumpsit, by which the defendant alleges that he is not indebted to the plaintiff. Nunquam nimis dicitur quod nunquam

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