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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 “New Reports ;” also for “not reported,” and for “nonresident.”

Those seas which run between two coasts not far apart The term is sometimes applied to the English channel. Wharton.

In Spanish law. The state of a natural-born subject. White, New Ifecop. b. 1, tit. 5, c. 2.

To conduct vessels through navigable waters; to use the waters as a means of communication. Ryan v. Hook, 34 Hun (N. Y.) 185.

L. Fr. In pleading. The name of a plea in an action of account-render, by which the defendant denies that he ever was receiver of the plaintiff. 12 Vin. Abr. 183.

In a statute against “needless” killing or mutilation of any animal, this term denotes an act done without any useful motive, in a spirit of wanton cruelty, or for the mere pleasure

Lat. No one; no man. The iui- tial word of many Latin phrases and maxims, among which are the following: Nemo admittendus est inhabilitare seipsuin. Jenk. Cent. 40. No mau is to

The name of a prison In London, said to have existed as early as 1207. It was three times destroyed and rebuilt For centuries the condition of the place was horrible, but

near high mountains covered with snow. Du Cange.

Lat. In the civil law. A name; the name, style, or designation of a person. Properly, the name showing to what gens or tribe he belonged, as distinguished from his own individual

A lawgiver; such as Solon and Lycurgus among the Greeks, and Caesar, Pompey, and Sylla among the Romans. Calvin.

Lat. He did not grant. The name of a plea denying a grant, which could be made only by a stranger.

He did not commit waste against the prohibition. A plea to an action founded on a writ of estrepement for waste. 3 Bl. Comm. 226, 227.

Lat It is not clear. In the Roman courts, when any of the judges, after the hearing of a cause, were not satisfied that the case was made clear enough for them

Lat Of unsound mind. Fleta, lib. 0, c. 40,

Payments made to the church, by those who were tenants of church-farms. The first was a rent or duty for things belonging to husbandry: the sec- ond was claimed iu right of

A special traverse used in an action of trover, alleging that de- fendant was not possessed, at the time of action brought, of the chattels alleged to have been converted by him.