Category: N

In old ecclesiastical law. A nun. Nonnus, a monk. Spelman.

In civil and old European law. Short-hand characters or marks of contrac- tion, in which the emperors’ secretaries took down what they dictated. Spelman; Calvin.

Land newly plowed and converted into tillage, and which has not been tilled before within the memory of man; also fallow land.

Lat In the civil law. Marriageable; one who Is of a proper age to be married.

L. Lat In pleading. The name of a plea to an action of debt upon an obligation for the performance of an award, by which the defendant denies that he submitted to

The act of taking care ol children, bringing them up, and educating them. Regina y. Clarke, 7 El. & Bl. 193.

In old English law. A distress or seizure of chattels. As a Latin conjunction, for; because. Often used by the old writers in introducing the quotation of a Latin maxim.

A people, or aggregation of men, existing in the form of an organized jural society, inhabiting a distinct portion of the earth, speaking the same language, using the same customs, possessing historic

Lat. In the civil law. The master or owner of a merchant vessel. Calvin.

In Hindu law. Composer, arranger, adjuster. The first officer of a province, and minister of the department of criminal justice.

Oxen or heifers. “Beeves” may include neat stock, but all neat stock are not beeves. Castello v. State, 36 Tex. 324; Ilubotter v. State, 32 Tex. 479.

amount of money expressed upon its face, with the right to sue therefor in his own name, may be transferred from one person to another without a formal assignment, but by mere

The son of a brother or sister. But the term, as used in wills and other documents, may include the children of half brothers and sisters and also grand- nephews, if such

Lat. In Roman law. In ancient times the nexxim seems to have been a species of formal contract, involving a loan of money, and attended with peculiar conse- quences, solemnized with the

In Scotch law. An equitable power of the court of session, to give relief when none is possible at law. Ersk. Inst. 1, 3, 22; Bell. Nobiles magis plectuntur pecunia; plehes vero

In the civil law. Contracts having a proper or peculiar name and form, and which were divided into four kinds, expressive of the ways in which they were formed, viz.: (1) Beal,

The refusal of admission.

Noil debet actori licere quod reo non permittitur. A plaintiff ought not to be allowed what is not permitted to a defendant A rule of the civil law. Dig. 50, 17, 41.

I was not present. A reporter’s note. T. Jones, 10.

Lat. Notwithstanding. Words anciently used in public and private instruments, intended to preclude, in advance, any interpretation contrary to certain declared objects or purposes. Bur- rill. A clause frequent in old English