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holds only In the name or for the benefit of another, whose name he discloses by the plea, in order that the plaintiff may bring his action against such other. See Mackeld.

A non- continuous or discontinuous easement Fetters v. Humphreys, 18 N. J. Eq. 262. See EASEMENT.

Lat. In pleading. He did not grant The general issue iu forme- don.

Lat. Not. The common particle of negation.

the writ by reason of any liberty, because there are many liberties or districts in which the sheriff has no power to execute process unless he has special authority. 2 Steph. Comm.

OF. The mode in which a tenant or defendant in a real action pleaded, when the summons which followed the original was not served within the proper time. Non temere credere est

In English law. Twelve acres and a half.

In English probate practice, notation is the act of making a memo- randum of some special circumstance on a probate or letters of administration. Thus, where a grant is made for the

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. An action which lay against the master of a slave, for some offense (as theft or robbery) committed or damage or injury done by the slave, which

Lat. Among the property of no person.

Lat. Never indebted. The name of a plea in an action of indebitatus assumpsit, by which the defendant alleges that he is not indebted to the plaintiff. Nunquam nimis dicitur quod nunquam

An abbreviation for “New Series;” also for “New Style.”

Lat That shall hereafter be born. A term used in marriage settlements to designate the future issue of the marriage, as distinguished from “nutus,” a child already born.

The act of adopting an alien into a nation, and clothing him with all the rights possessed by a natural- born citizen. Boyd v. Nebraska, 143 U. S. 135, 12 Sup. Ct.

To conduct vessels through navigable waters; to use the waters as a means of communication. Ryan v. Hook, 34 Hun (N. Y.) 185.

L. Fr. Never married. More fully, ne unques accouple en loiall matrimonie, never joined in lawful marriage. The name of a plea in the action of dower unde nihil habet, by which

Controlling force; irresistible compulsion; a power or Impulse so great that it admits no choice of conduct. When it is said that an act is done “under necessity,” it may be. in

The word “negro” meaus a black mau, one descended from the African race, and does not commonly include a mulatto. Felix v. State, 18 Ala. 720. But the laws of the different

A name given to the English house of commons in the time of Henry YIII. NEURASTHENIA