Category: N

See FUND.

Titular; existing in name only; not real or substantial; connected with the transaction or proceeding in name only, not in interest.

In legal parlance, this term denotes the absence of opportunities for sexual intercourse between husbaud and wife; or the absence of such intercourse. Non accipi debent verba in demonstra- tionem falsam, quae

A uou-apparent or discontinuous easement. Fetters v. Humphreys, 18 N. J. Eq. 202. See EASEMENT.

Lat. He did not break the contract. The name of a plea sometimes pleaded in the action of covenant, and intended as a general issue, but held to be a bad plea;

A writ that lay for a person who was molested contrary to the king’s protection granted to him. Reg. Orig. 184. Non nasci, et natum mori, paria sunt. Not to be born,

A writ prohibiting an ordinary to take a pecuniary mulct imposed on a clerk of the sovereign for non- residence. Beg. Writ. 59.

The neglect or failure of a person to do some act which he ought to do. The term is not generally used to denote a breach of contract, but rather the failure

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.

As a term of jurisprudence, this word is equivalent to bare, wanting in nec- essary conditions, incomplete, as a naked con- trad. (mulum pactum,) i. e., a contract devoid of consideration, and

In old records. A native place. Cowell.

Lat. Born, as distinguished from nasciturus, about to be born. Ante natus, one born before a particular person or event, c. ti.. before the death of his father, before a political revolution,

A sum paid to government as an acknowledgment for a grant of lands, or any public otiice. Enc. Lond.

The clear weight or quantity of an article, without the bag, box, keg, or other thing in which it may be enveloped.

Lat. In the civil law. Carelessness; inattention; the omission of proper care or forethought. The term is not exactly equivalent to our “negligence,” in- asmuch as it was not any ncgligentia, but

L. Fr. Not Litt