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The refusal to accept anything.

In English law. One who refuses to comply with others; one who refuses to join in the established forms of worship. Non-conformists are of two sorts: (1) Such as absent themselves from

I did not agree to these terms. Non impedit clausula derogatoria quo minus ad eadem potestate res dissol- vantur a qua constituuntur. A derogatory clause does not impede things from being dissolved

A term applied to all letters and parcels which are by law exclud ed from transportation in the United States mails, whether on account of the size of the package, the nature

As “sane,” when applied to the mind, means whole, sound, in a health- ful state, “non-sane” must mean not whole, not sound, not in a healthful state; that is, broken, impaired, shattered,

A ninlh part of movables which was paid to the clergy on the death of persons in their parish, and claimed on pretense of being dis tributed to pious uses. Blount.

A return sometimes made by sheriffs or constables to a writ of execution; but it is not a technical formula, and is condemned by the courts as ambigu- ous and insufficient. See

The name of an imposition or duty. SeeANTIQUA CUSTUMA.

Lat. In the civil law. An offense committed or damage done by a slave. Inst. 4, 8, 1.

Lat. In old English law. Of no legal force. Fleta, lib. 2, c. 60,

Lat. A second marriage. In the canon law, this term included any marriage subsequent to the first.

Originally the governor of a province under the Mogul government of Hin- dostan, whence it became a mere title of any man of high rank, upon whom it was con- ferred without

The state and condition of a man acquired by birth.

To confer citizenship upon an alien ; to make a foreigner the same, in respect to rights and privileges, as if he were a native citizen or subject.

Lat. A ship; a vessel.

Those tides which happen between the full and change of the moon, twice in every twenty-four hours. Tesche- macher v. Thompson, 18 Cal. 21, 70 Am. Dec. 101.

Omission; failure to do something that one is bound to do; carelessness. The term is used in the law of bailment as synonymous with “negligence.” But the latter word is the closer

Nemo in propria causa testis esse debet. No one ought to be a witness in his own cause. 3 Bl. Comm. 371. Nemo inauditus condcmnari debet si non sit contumax. No man

empowered by them, in which the public acts, resolves, advertisements, and notices are required to be published. Albany County v. Chaplin, 5 Wyo. 74, 37 Pac. 370.

This phrase, when indorsed by ;i grand jury on an indictment, is equivalent to “not found,” “not a true bill,” or “ig- norumus.”