Category: N

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.

The Scotch form of “notarial,” (q. v.) Bell.

In Saxon law. A pecuniary satisfaction for an Injury, amounting to nine times the value of the thing for which It was paid. Spelman.

Anything that unlawfully worketh hurt, inconvenience, or damage. 3 Bl. Comm. 216. That class of wrongs that arise from the unreasonable, unwarrantable, or unlawful use by a person of his own property,

In international law. A, messenger; a minister; the pope’s legate, commonly called a “nuncio.”

An abbreviation for “non allocatur,” it is not allowed.

in French law, Is the contract of pledge; if of a movable, it is called “gage;” and if of an immovable, it is called “antichrHse.” Brown.

Lat. In old English law, a native; specifically, one born into a condition of servitude; a born serf or villein.

ertaining to ships or to the art of navigation or the business of carriage by sea.

Lat. In American practice. A writ similar to that of ne exeat regno, (q. v..) available to the plaintiff in a civil suit, under some circum- stances, when the defendant is about

Things indispensable, or things proper and useful, for the sustenance of human life. This is a relative term, and its meaning will contract or expand according to the situation and social condition

Lat. In the civil law. Carelessness; inattention; the omission of proper care or forethought. The term is not exactly equivalent to our “negligence,” in- asmuch as it was not any ncgligentia, but

L. Fr. Not Litt

Lat. In Roman law. Bound; bound persons. A term applied to such insolvent debtors as were delivered up to their creditors, by whom they might be held in bondage until their debts

See FUND.

Titular; existing in name only; not real or substantial; connected with the transaction or proceeding in name only, not in interest.

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

Lat. He did not impede. The plea of the general issue in quare impedit. The Latin form of the law French “ne disturba pas.”