This word has several significations. 1. It is used in contradistinction to giving assent; thus we say the president has put his negative upon such a ...
pleading, evidence. An averment in some of the pleadings in a case in which a negative is asserted. 2. It is a general rule, established for the purpo...
contracts, wills. One where the thing which is the subject of it must not happen; as, if I do not marry. Poth. Ob. n. 200; 1 Bouv. Inst. n. 751. ...
pleading. Such form of negative expression, in pleading, as may imply or carry within it an affirmative. 2. This is faulty, because the meaning of suc...
One which is enacted in negative terms, and which so controls the common law, that it has no force in opposition to the statute. Bro. Parl. pl. 72; Ba...
njury or loss to another in consequence of his negligence, is responsible for all the consequence. Hob. 134; 3 Wils. 126; 1Chit. TI. 129, 130; 2 Hen. ...
The omission to take such a care of a prisoner as a gaoler is bound to take, and in consequence of it, the prisoner departs from his confinement, with...
That which is capable of being transferred by assignment; a thing, the title to which may be transferred by a sale and indorsement or delivery. 2. A c...
contracts. This term is applied to bills of exchange and promissory notes, which are assignable by indorsement or delivery. 2. The statute of 3 & 4 An...
contracts The deliberation which takes place between the parties touching a proposed agreement. 2. That which transpires in the negotiation makes no p...
merc. law. The act by which a bill of exchange or promissory note is put into circulation by being passed by one of the original parties to another pe...
contracts. In the civil law, the negotiorum gestor is one who spontaneously, and without authority, undertakes to act for another during his absence, ...
old Eng. law. A woman who was born a villain, or a bond woman....
ouse of commons; in the house of lords, the words to convey the same idea are nemine dissentiente....
dom. rel. The son of a person s brother or sister. Amb. 514; 1 Jacob s Ch. R. 207....
A grandson. This term is used in making genealogical tables....
insurance. The words "neutral property " in a policy of insurance, have the effect of warranting that the property insured is neutral; that is, that i...
international law. The state of a nation which takes no part between two or more other. nations at war with each other. 2. Neutrality consists in the ...
Something not known before. 2. To be patented, an invention must be new. When an invention has been described in a printed book which has been publicl...
This phrase is used in tlie act of congress relating to granting patents for inventions. 2. The invention to be patented must not only be new, but use...
A term used in the law of insurance in cases of adjustment of a loss, when it has been but partial. In making such adjustment the rule is to apply the...
hes the true ground of complaint, as being different from that which is covered by the plea. Being in the nature of a new or repeated declaration, it ...
governor is hereby entrusted with all other powers incident to the office of captain-general and commander-in-chief, and admiral, to be exercised agre...
ed to him, the same shall be a law, in like manner as if he had signed it, unless the legislature, by their adjournment, prevent its return, in which ...
pleading. All facts alleged in pleading, which go in avoidance of what is before, pleaded, on the opposite side, are called new matter. In other words...
him is clearly gone, so when an infant has made a contract prejudicial to his interest, he may avoid it; and when by lapse of time a debt is barred by...
e the granting of new trials in Louisiana, will be found in the Code of Practice, art. 557 to 563....
In Louisiana, by a new work is understood every sort of edifice orother work, which is newly commenced on any ground whatever. 2. When the ancient for...
" "Sect. 25. The legislature, at its first session after the adoption of this constitution, shall provide for the organization of the court of appeals...
That evidence which, after diligent search for it, was not discovered until after the trial of a cause. 2. In general a new trial will be granted on t...
ose rates; tri-weekly, treble those rates; and oftener than tri-weekly, five times those rates; Provided, That newspapers not containing over three hu...
One who, without being regularly appointed guardian, acts for the benefit of an infant, married woman, or other person, not sui juris. Vide Amy; Proch...
This term is used to signify the relations of a party who has died intestate. 2. In general no one comes within this term who is not included in the p...
Rom. civ. law. Viewed as to its object and legal effect, nexum was either the transfer of the ownership of a thing, or the transfer of a thing to a cr...
domestic relations: The daughter of a person s brother or sister. Amb. 514; 1 Jacob s Ch. R. 207....
old Eng. law. A woman born in vassalage. In Latin she was called Nativa....
Not included. It is an exception taken to a petition, because the thing desired is not contained in that deed or proceeding wltereoia the petition is ...
Nof guilty the name of a plea used to deny any charge of ao r@al nature, or of a tort....
To say nothing. 2. These words are used to signify that judgment be rendered ag@ a party, because he does not deny the cause of action, i. e. by defau...
pleading. The same as non est factum, a plea by which the defendant asserts that the deed declared upon is not his deed....
That space of time during which the sun is below the horizon of the earth, except, that short space which precedes its rising and follows its setting,...
Persons who sleep by day and walk by niggt 5 E. Ill. c. 14; that is, persons of suspicious appearance and demeanor, who walk by night. 2. Watchmen may...
practice. That he take nothing by his writ. This is the judgment against the plaintiff in an action, either in bar or in abatement. When the plaintiff...
He says nothing. It is the failing of the defendant to put in a plea or answer to the plaintiff s declaration by the day assigned; and in this case ju...
The name of a return made by a sheriff, marshal, or other proper officer, to a scire facia.9 or other writ, when he Ims not been able to, serve it on ...
pleading. The general issue in debt,6r simple contract. It is in the following form: IcAndthesaideD, by E F, his attorney, comes and defends the wrong...
pleading. A plea by which the defendant, wbo is sued by his landlord in debt for rent uppa-a lease, but by deed indented, by,which he denies his landl...
lved of course, on motion, and production of an affidavit of service of the order. This is called an order nisi. Ch. Pr. 547. Under the compulsory arb...
These words, which signifyunless before,are the name of a court. The name originated as follows: Formerly, an action was triable only in the court whe...
Eng. practice. A transcript of a case made from the plea roll, and includes the declaration, plea, replication, rejoinder, &c. and the issue. Eunom. D...
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