The name of a plea to an action or award. 1 Stew. 520; f Chip. R. 131; 3 Johns. 367. See Nul. Agard....
These words are frequently used by grand juries. They are endorsed on a bill of indictment when the grand jury have not sufficient cause for finding a...
An order of men in several countries to whom privileges are granted at the expense of the rest of the people. 2. The constitution of the United States...
practice. An entry made on the record, by which the prosecutor or plaintiff declares that he will proceed no further. 2. A nolle prosequi may be enter...
This expression is used to signify that a word in the singular number is to be understood in the plural in certain cases. 2. Misdemeanor, for example,...
A name which applies generally to a number of things; as, land, which is a general name by which everything attached to the freehold will pass....
Relating to a name. 2. A nominal plaintiff is one in whose name an action is brought, for the use of another. In this case, the nominal plaintiff has ...
One who is named as the plaintiff in an action, but who has no interest in it, having assigned the cause or right of action to another, for whose use ...
civil law. Nominate contracts are those which have a particular name to distinguish them; as, purchase and sale, hiring, partnership, loan for use, de...
sident "shall nominate, and by and with the consent of the senate, shall appoint ambassadors," &c....
contracts. The name of a penalty incurred by the lessee to the lessor, for the non-payment of rent at the day appointed by the lease or agreement for ...
One who has been named or proposed for an office. NON. Not. When prefixed to other words, it is used as a negative as non access, non assumpsit....
The name of a plea to an action of assumpsit brought against the drawee of a bill of exchange upon a supposed acceptance by him. See 4 Mann. & Gr. 561...
The non existence of sexual intercourse is generally expressed by the words " non access of the husband to the wife which expressions, in a case of ba...
By this term is understood that period of life from the birth till the arrival of twenty-one years. In another sense it means under the proper age to ...
pleading. The general issue in trespass on the case, in the species of assumpsit. Its form is, "And the said C D, by E F, his attorney, comes and defe...
The name of a plea by which the defendant avers that he did not assume to perform the assumption charged in the declaration within six years. 2. The a...
civil law. This phrase signifies that no one shall be twice tried for the same offence; that is, that when a party accused has been once tried by a tr...
pleading. The general issue in replevin. Its form is, "And the said C D, by E F, his attorney, comes and defends the wrong and injury, when, &c., and ...
An omission or neglect by one entitled to make a demand within the time limited by law; as, when a continual claim ought to be made, a neglect to make...
persons. These words signify not of sound mind, memory, or understanding. This is a generic term, and includes all the species of madness, whether it ...
Eng. law. The name of a plea by which the defendant denies that the crown granted to the plaintiff by letters patent, the rights which he claims as a ...
English law. A name given to certain dissenters from the rites and ceremonies of the church of England....
It does not appear. These words are frequently used, particularly in argument; as, it was moved in arrest of judgment that the declaration was not goo...
pleading. Not guilty. (q. v.) It is usually abbreviated non cul. 16 Vin. Ab. 1. ...
pleading. A plea to an action of debt on a bond of indemnity, by which the defendant asserts that the plaintiff has received no damage; in other words...
pleading. The general issue in formedom. See Ne dona pas....
pleading. A plea proper to be pleaded to an action of debt for rent, when the plaintiff declares on a parol lease. Gilb. Debt, 436, 438; Bull. N. P. 1...
s not detain the said goods and chattels (or, deeds and writings,according to the subject of the action,) in the said declaration specified, or any pa...
pleading. The general issue in debt on bond or other specialty, and is, in form, as follows: I " And the said C D, by E F, his attorney, conies and de...
practice. The sheriff s return to a writ requiring him to ,arrest the person of the defendant, which signifies that he is not to be found within his j...
torts, contracts. The non-performance of some act which ought to be performed. 2. When a legislative act requires a person to do a thing, its non feas...
He did not make it. The name of a plea, for example, in an action of assumpsit on a promissory note. 3 Mann. Gr. 446....
The name of a plea to an action founded on a writ of estrepement, that the defendant did not commit waste contrary to the prohibition. 3 Bl. Com. 226,...
pleading. A plea in an action of covenant. This plea is not a general issue, it merely denies that the defendant has broken the covenants on which he ...
pleading, practice. The omission of some one of the persons who ought to have been made a plaintiff or defendant along with others is called a non joi...
English law. Persons who refuse to take the oaths, required by law, to support the government. 1 Dall. 170....
It is not clear....
The name of a faulty replication to a plea of moderate castigavit. (q. v.) This replication, in such a case, is a negative. pregnant. Gould, PI. ch. 7...
Engl. law. These words, which literally signify notwithstanding, are used to express the act of the English king, by which he dispenses with the law, ...
Notwithstanding the verdict. See Judgment non obstante veredicto....
English practice. The name of a writ directed to the sheriff Where the bailiff of a liberty or franchise, who has the return of writs, neglects or ref...
The name of a judgment rendered against a plaintiff for neglecting to prosecute his suit agreeably to law and the rules of the court. Vide Grah. Pr. 7...
eccles. law. The absence of spiritual persons from their benefices....
The name of a plea to an action of debt or a bond to perform an award, by which the defendant pleads that he did not submit. Bac. Ab. Arbitr. &c., G....
pleading. I am not informed. Vide lnformatus non SUM....
pleadings. A plea to an action in partition, by which the defendant denies that he holds the property, which is the subject of the suit, together with...
He did not hold. The name of a plea in bar in replevin, when the plaintiff has avowed for rent arrear, by which the plaintiff avows that he did not ho...
pleading. A plea in a real action, by which the defendant asserted, that he did not hold the land, or at least some part of it, as mentioned in the pl...
The vacation between two terms of a court....
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