Category: N

Unintelligible matter iu a written agreement or will.

Taken by a notary; performed by a notary in his official capacity; belonging to a notary and evidencing his official character, as, a notarial seal.

Novation is the substitution of a new debt or obligation for an existing one. Civ. Code Cal.

Lat Mere sufferance.

In English law. A name given to the statute 3 Geo. III. c. 16, because that act. in contravention of the maxim “Nullum tempus occurrit regi,” (no lapse of time liars the

Lat In the civil law. A son’s wife; a daughter-in-law. Calvin.

L. Lat. In old records. To take, seize, or distrain.

Pertaining or relating to a nation as a whole; commonly applied in American law to institutions, laws, or affairs of the United States or its government, as opposed to those of the

In French maritime law. Shipwreck. “The violent agitation of the waves, the impetuous force of tbe winds, storm, or lightning, may swallow up the ves sel, or shatter It, in such a

L. Fr. He did not deliver. A plea in detinue, denying the delivery to the defendant of the thing sued for.

In pleading. The statement in apt and appropriate words of all the necessary facts, and no more. Lavves, Pi. 62. Nec curia deficexet in justitia exlii- beuda. Nor should the court be

To discuss or arrange a sale or bargain; to arrange the preliminaries of a business transaction. Also to sell or discount negotiable paper, or assign or transfer it by indorsement and delivery.

Lat. A grandson.

In English practice. Debts due to the exchequer which the sheriff could BL.LAW DICT.(2D ED.)

In English law. A division of the people, comprehending dukes, marquises, earls, viscounts, and barons. These had anciently duties annexed to their respective honors. They are created either by writ, i. c.,

Lat. By name; expressed one by one.

Lack of requisite legal age. The condition of a person who is under twen- ty-one years of age, in some cases, and under fourteen or twelve in others; minority. Non alio modo

See DE NON DE- CIMANDO. Non decipitur qui scit se decipi. 5 Coke, 00. He is not deceived who knows himself to be deceived.

A term sometimes applied to a will which authorizes the executor to settle and distribute the estate without the intervention of the court and without giving bond. In re Macdonald’s Estate, 29

A clause usually inserted in writs of execution, in England, directing the sheriff “not to omit” to execute NON OMNE DAMNUM 827