Category: N

fact; the power or authority of a judex; the power of hearing causes and of pronounc- ing sentence, without any degree of jurisdiction. Calvin.

Know all men by these presents. Formal words used at the commencement of deeds of release in the Latin forms.

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.

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

Lat. Not of sound mind. A generic term applicable to all insane persons, of whatsoever specific type the insanity may be and from whatever cause arising, provided there be an entire loss

L. Lat. In old English law. A taking; a distress. Spelman. Things, goods, or animals taken by way of distress. Simplex namium, a simple taking or pledge. Bract, fol. 2056.

See INTERNATIONAL LAW.

The freight of passengers in a ship. Johnson; Webster.

The general issue in a formedon, now abolished. It denied the gift in tail to have been made in manner and form as alleged; and was therefore the proper plea, if the

In pleading. The statement in apt and appropriate words of all the necessary facts, and no more. Lavves, Pi. 62. Nec curia deficexet in justitia exlii- beuda. Nor should the court be

and foresight are accustomed to use. Rriggs v. Spaulding, 141 U. S. 132, 11 Sup. Ct. 924, 35 L. Ed. 662; French v. Buffalo, etc., R. Co., *43 N. Y. 108; Litchfield

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

See EVIDENCE.

The name of a pica in an action on an award, by which the defendant traverses the allegation that an award was made.

In Roman law. Obligations contracted by literw (i. c.. Uteris ohligationes) were so called because they arose from a peculiar transfer (transcriptio) from the creditor’s day-book (adversaria) into his ledger, (codex.)

A lawgiver; such as Solon and Lycurgus among the Greeks, and Caesar, Pompey, and Sylla among the Romans. Calvin.

Lat. He did not grant. The name of a plea denying a grant, which could be made only by a stranger.

He did not commit waste against the prohibition. A plea to an action founded on a writ of estrepement for waste. 3 Bl. Comm. 226, 227.

Lat It is not clear. In the Roman courts, when any of the judges, after the hearing of a cause, were not satisfied that the case was made clear enough for them

Lat Of unsound mind. Fleta, lib. 0, c. 40,