Category: N

Lat. A plea by way of traverse, which occurs in debt on bond or other specialty, and also in covenant. It denies that the deed mentioned in the declaration is the defendant’s

Not judicial; not legal. Dies non juridicus is a day on which legal proceedings cannot be had.

Lat Not to disturb what is settled. A rule expressing the same principle as that of stare decisis, (q. r.) Non qnod dictum est, sed quod factum est inspicitur. Not what is

a maternal or paternal inheritance; but, if he had offspring before the felony, such off- spring may succeed as to the inheritance of the father or mother by whom the felony was

These words, indorsed on a bill of indictment by a grand jury, have the same effect as the indorsement “Not a true bill” or “Ignoramus.”

Lat. Knowledge; information ; intelligence; notice. Notitia dieitur a noscendo; et notitia non debet clandicare. Notice is named from a knowledge being had; and notice ought not to halt, [i. e

Lat. Novelty; newness; a new thing. Novitas non tam ntilitate prodest qnam novitate perturbat. A novelty does not benefit so much by its utility as it disturbs by its novelty. Jenk. Cent.

Naught; of no validity or effect Usually coupled with the word “void;” as “null and void.” Forrester v. Boston, etc., Min. Co., 29 Mont. 397, 74 Pac. 10S8; Hume v. Eagon, 73

Lat. In the civil and old English law. A fair. In nundinis et mer- catis, In fairs and markets. Bract, fol. 56.

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.