Category: N

In English law. Persons who refuse to take the oaths, required by law, to support the government. Non jus ex regula, sed regula ex jure. The law does not arise from the

One who is not a dweller within some jurisdiction in question; not an inhabitant of the state of the forum. Gardner v. Meeker, 1G!) 111. 40, 48 N. E. 307; Nagel v.

Inability to sue. 5 Bell, App. Cas. 172. Non valet confirmatio, nisi ille, qui coniirmat, sit in possessione rei vel juris unde fieri debet confirmatio; et code in modo, nisi ille cui

A plea of the general issue In the actious of trespass and case and in criminal prosecutious. The form of the verdict In criminal cases, where the jury acquit the prisoner. 4

The Scotch form of “notarial,” (q. v.) Bell.

Lat. In the civil law. A new work. See Novi OPERIS NUNCIATIO.

Lat. No goods. The name of the return made by the sheriff to a writ of execution, when he has not found any goods of the defendant within his jurisdiction on which

Traffic at fairs and markets; any buying and selling. Nunquam crescit ex postfacto prae- teriti delicti sestimatio. The character of a past offense is never aggravated by a subsequent act or matter.

An abbreviation for “notary public,” (Rowley v. Berrlan, 12 111. 200;) also for “nisi prius,” (q. v.)

A countor; a pleader who draws nans. &crvicns narrator, a serjeant at law. Fleta, 1. 2, c. 37.

laws” because a knowledge of them may be attained merely by the light of reason, from the fact of their essential agreeableness with the constitution of human nature; while, on the contrary,

Capable of being navigated; that may be navigated or passed over in ships or vessels. But the term is generally understood in a more restricted sense, viz., subject to the ebb and

L. Fr. (Never seised of a dowable estate.) In pleading. The general Issue in the action of dower unde nil habet, by which the tenant denies that the demandant’s husband was ever

An autopsy, or post-mortem examination of a human body.

Lat. No one dissenting; no one voting in the negative. A phrase used to indicate the unanimous consent of a court or legislative body to a judgment, resolution, vote, or motion. Commonly

222; Veazie v. Marrett, 6 Allen (Mass.) 372.

Lat. Unless. The word is often affixed, as a kind of elliptical expression, to the words “rule,” “order,” “decree,” “judgment.” or “confirmation,” to indicate that the adjudication spoken of is one which

admission elsewhere. Com. v. Tilton. S Mete. (Mass.) 232. Not available as an estoppel in a civil action. Com. v. Ilorton, 9 Pick. (Mass.) 20G.

A treatise or description of laws.

A non-commissioned officer of the army or militia is a subordinate officer who holds his rank, not by commission from the executive authority of the state or nation, but by appointment by