Category: N

1. The refusal of one state or nation to have commercial dealings with another; similar to an embargo, (q. v.) 2. The absence of access, communication, or sexual relations between husband and

Not negotiable; not capable of passing title or property by indorsement and delivery. Non obligat lex nisi promulgata. A law is not obligatory unless it be promulgated. Non observata forma, infertur adnul-

Lat. He did not submit. A plea to an action of debt, on a bond to perform an award, to the effect that the defendant did not submit to the arbitration.

In old ecclesiastical law. A nun. Nonnus, a monk. Spelman.

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.

Nominal damages are a trifling sum awarded to a plaintiff in an action, where there is no substantial loss or injury to be compensated, but still the law recognizes a technical invasion

One on which process cannot ordinarily issue or be served or returned and on which the courts do not ordinarily sit. Whitney v. Blackburn, 17 Or. 564. 21 Pac. 874, 11 Am.