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In English law. A clause of a charter of a municipal borough, whereby the borough is NON INTROMITTEN DO 826

Neglect, failure, or refusal to do or perform an act stipulated to be done. Failure to keep the terms of a contract or covenant, in respect to acts or doings agreed upon.

A plea in a real action, by which the defendant asserts, either as to the whole or as to some part of the land mentioned in the plaintiff’s declaration, that he does

The tongue in which several formal proceedings of state in England are still carried on. The language, having remained the same since the date of the Conquest, at which it was introduced

by direct information, either written or oral, from those who are cognizant of the fact communicated. Baltimore v. Whittington, 78 Md. 23 1. 27 Atl. 9S4. Implied notice is one of the

Know all men by these presents. Formal words used at the commencement of deeds of release in the Latin forms.

d. 5, 14, 1; Broom, Max. 676. NUEVA RECOPIEACION. (New Compilation.) The title of a code of Spanish law, promulgated in the year 1567. Schm. Civil Law, Introd. 79-81.

Lat. Now for then. A phrase applied to acts allowed to be done after the time when they should be done, with a retroactive effect, i. e., with the same effect as

An abbreviation of “Novella),” the Novels of Justinian, used in citing them. Tayl. Civil Law, 24. In English, a common and familiar abbreviation for the word “north,” as used in maps, charts,

A celebrated law for the security of Protestants, made by Henry IV. of France, and revoked by Louis XIV., October 2, 1685.

A natural-born subject or citizen ; a denizen by birth ; one who owes his domicile or citizenship to the fact of his birth within the country referred to. The term may

ertaining to ships or to the art of navigation or the business of carriage by sea.

Lat. In the civil law. The name of a servitude which restrains the owner of a house from making such erections as obstruct the light of the adjoining house. Dig. 8, 4,

As used in jurisprudence, the word “necessary” does not always import an absolute physical necessity, so strong that one thing, to which another may be termed “necessary,” cannot exist without that other.

The word “negro” meaus a black mau, one descended from the African race, and does not commonly include a mulatto. Felix v. State, 18 Ala. 720. But the laws of the different

A name given to the English house of commons in the time of Henry YIII. NEURASTHENIA

In old English law. A woman born in vassalage; a bondwoman. Housatonic It. Co., 03 Conn. 258, 27 Atl. 1117; Wilbur v. Maynard, 0 Colo. 4S0.

Lat. In old English law. A nuisance. A’ocnmcntum ilamnosum, a nuisance occasioning loss or damage. Hoeumcntum injiirlosuin. an injurious nuisance. For the latter only a remedy was given. Bract, fol. 221.

Lat. A nominative case grammatically unconnected with the rest of the sentence in which it stands. The opening words in the ordinary form of a deed inter partes, “This indenture,” etc., down

The general issue in the action of assumpsit; being a plea by which the defendant avers that “he did not undertake” or promise as alleged.