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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 verdict in a Scotch criminal trial, to the effect that the guilt of the accused is not made out, though his innocence is not clear.

In Scotch law. Open; notorious. A notour bankrupt is a debtor who, being under diligence by horning and caption of his creditor, retires to sanctuary or absconds or defends by force, and

Lat. In the civil law. An action which lay against the master of a slave, for some offense (as theft or robbery) committed or damage or injury done by the slave, which

Lat. Among the property of no person.

Lat. In practice. The name of a writ (now abolished) which, in the English law, lay for a sister co-heiress dispossessed by her coparcener of lands and tenements whereof their father, brother,

An abbreviation for “New Series;” also for “New Style.”

Lat That shall hereafter be born. A term used in marriage settlements to designate the future issue of the marriage, as distinguished from “nutus,” a child already born.

The act of adopting an alien into a nation, and clothing him with all the rights possessed by a natural- born citizen. Boyd v. Nebraska, 143 U. S. 135, 12 Sup. Ct.

Fr. In French law. A ship. Emerig. Traits des Assur. c. 6,

does not affect its negotiability. Fleckner v. Bank of United States, 8 Wheat. 338, 5 L. Ed. 031.

Lat. Inauspicious. Applied. in the Roman law, to a day on which it was unlawful to open the courts or administer justice. Ncgatio conclnsionis est error in lege. Wing. 208. The denial

properly rejected this as a rule of evidence. 7 Term It 001. Nemo bis punitur pro eodem delicto. No man is punished twice for the same offense. 4 Bl. Comm. 315; 2

See EVIDENCE.

The name of a pica in an action on an award, by which the defendant traverses the allegation that an award was made.

In Roman law. Obligations contracted by literw (i. c.. Uteris ohligationes) were so called because they arose from a peculiar transfer (transcriptio) from the creditor’s day-book (adversaria) into his ledger, (codex.)