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NON DETINET

Lat. He does not detain. The name of the general Issue in the action of detinue. 1 Tidd, Pr. 045; Berlin Mach. Works v. Alabama City Furniture Co., 112 Ala. 48S, 20

NON INTROMITTANT CLAUSE

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

NON-PERFORMANCE

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.

NON-TENURE

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

NORMAN FRENCH

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

NOTIO

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

NUEVA RECOPIEACION

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.

NUNC PRO TUNC

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

NOMINAL AND SUBSTANTIAL DAMAGES

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

NON-JUDICIAL DAY

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.

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