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Lat. If, In the proceedings in an action at law, the plaintiff neglects to take any of those steps which he ought to take within the time prescribed by the practice of

Neglect to use. Neglect to use a franchise; neglect to exercise an office. 2 Bl. Comm. 153. Neglect or omission to use an easement or other right. 3 Kent, Comm. 448. A

In the civil law. Persons who have the management and care of hos- pitals for paupers.

fact; the power or authority of a judex; the power of hearing causes and of pronounc- ing sentence, without any degree of jurisdiction. Calvin.

(Latest Compilation.) The title of a collection of Spanish law compiled by order of Don Carlos IV. in 1805. 1 White, Recop. 355.

No; none. A law French negative particle, commencing many phrases.

A will which depends merely upon oral evidence, having been declared or dictated by the testator in his last sickness before a sufficient number of witnesses, and afterwards reduced to writing. Ex

An abbreviation for “Northern District.”

Lat. One of the common law names lor a plaintiff’s count or declaration, as being a narrative of the facts on which he relies.

The juristic meaning of this term does not differ from the vernacular, except in the cases where it is used in op position to the term “legal;” and then it means proceeding

In the civil law. The master or commander of a ship; the captain of a man-of-war.

L. Fr. Did not release. Where the defendant had pleaded a release, this was the proper replication by way of traverse.

The Latin sentence, “Miserere mei, Deus,” was so called, because the reading of it was made a test for those who claimed benefit of clergy.

All abbreviated form of docket entry, meaning that, by agreement, neither of the parties will further appear iu court iu that suit. Gendron v. Hovey, 9S Me. 139, 56 Atl. 583.

A species of traverse which occurs in actions of debt on simple contract, and is resorted to when the defendant means to deny In point of fact the existence of any express

Lat Nothing. A contracted form of “nihil,” which see.

Fr. In French marine law. Affreightment. Ord. Mar. liv. 3, tit. 1.

(1) A collection of canons and imperial laws relative or conformable thereto. The first nomocanon was made by Johannes Scholastlcus in 554. Photius, patriarch of Constantinople, in 883, compiled another nomocanon, or

The omission or neglect of him who ought to claim his right within the time limited by law; as within a year and a day where a continual claim was required, or

Lat. A plea by way of traverse, which occurs in debt on bond or other specialty, and also in covenant. It denies that the deed mentioned in the declaration is the defendant’s