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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 verdict in a Scotch criminal trial, to the effect that the guilt of the accused is not made out, though his innocence is not clear.

In Scotch law. Open; notorious. A notour bankrupt is a debtor who, being under diligence by horning and caption of his creditor, retires to sanctuary or absconds or defends by force, and

Lat. In the civil law. An action which lay against the master of a slave, for some offense (as theft or robbery) committed or damage or injury done by the slave, which

Lat. Among the property of no person.

Lat. In practice. The name of a writ (now abolished) which, in the English law, lay for a sister co-heiress dispossessed by her coparcener of lands and tenements whereof their father, brother,

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.”

In English law. An account of the names of all the villages and the possessors thereof, in each county, drawn up by several sheriffs, (9 Edw. II.,) and returned by them into

In pleading. The name of a plea to an action of assumpsit brought against the drawee of a bill of exchange by which he denies that he accepted the same.

Lat. It does not appear ; It is not clear or evident. A phrase used in general to state some conclusion as not necessarily following although it may appear on its face