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Lat. In tho civil law. A transacter or manager of business ; a person voluntarily constituting himself agent for another; one who, without any mandate or authority, assumes to take charge of

Clear of anything extraneous; with all deductions, such as charges, expenses, discounts, commissions, taxes, etc.; free from expenses. St. John v. Erie R. Co., 22 Wall. 148, 22 L Ed. 743; Scott

A vile, base person, or sluggard; chicken- hearted. Spelman.

By night. An abolished writ which issued out of chancery, and re- turned to the queen’s bench, for the prostration of inclosures, etc.

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

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

A term said to be of much wider scope in the law of damages than “pecuniary.” It embraces all those consequences of an injury usually denominated “general” damages, as distinguished from special

Properly the period of twenty-four hours from midnight to midnight. Co. Litt. 135; Fox v. Abel. 2 Conn. 541; People v. Hatch, 33 111. 137. Though sometimes taken to mean the “day-time”

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.