Juris

Non sum informatus

I am not informed; I have not been instructed. The name of a judgment in a species of default, founded on an averment by the defendant's attorney that he has not been instructed to answer the plaintiff; usually entered in pursuance of a previous agreement between the parties.

Non tenent insimul

They do not hold together. The name of a plea in a suit for partition, by which the defendant denies that the plaintiff or complainant and himself hold the property which is the subject of the suit, as tenants in common.

Non videntur qui errant consentire

They who mistake are not deemed to consent. Assent to an agreement given under a mistake as to materi_al facts does not make a valid contract. Such a contract is not considered as made by consent, and is therefore not a binding contract.

Non-acceptance

Applied to bills of exchange, signifies that acceptance by the drawee was not procured, or given.

See Accept.

Non-access.

Is used in a technical sense to signify privation of an opportunity of sexual intercourse between Non-appearance. The omission of timely and proper appearance; a failure to come into court as a party; default.

Non-feasance

Not doing; the omission of some act, generally of one which ought to have been done. See Malfeasance; Misfeasance.

Non-conformist.

A dissenter from the church of England; a word used more especially of the Protestant bodies who have seceded from the church.

4 Bl. Com. 51- 59; i Steph. Com. 706. Non-joinder.

The failure to make some one a party to a suit who should be; omission to unite a proper plaintiff or defendant; also, less frequently, omission of some cause of action from a writ.

Non-juror.

A person who, after the abdication of James II., refused to take the oaths to William III. and his successors in the government. Mozley ^ W. Non-resident. Not a dweller within some jurisdiction mentioned; not an inhabitant of the state in question.

Non-sane.

As "sane," when applied to the mind, means whole, sound, in a healthful state, " non-sane " must mean not whole, not sound, not in a healthful state; that is, broken, impaired, shattered, infirm, weak, diseased, unable, either from nature or accident, to perform the rational functions common to man upon the objects presented to it.

Den v. Vancleve, 5 N. J. L. 589, 661.

Non-sane memory means generally unsoundness of mind; and especially an exception to an action, on the ground that the act upon which the action was brought was done by a person who was mad at the time.

CoweL Non sum informatus

A formal answer made by an attorney, who is commanded by the court to say something in defence of his client; by which he is deemed to leave his client undefended, and so judgment passes. Termes de la Ley. Non-user. Omission to assert some privilege, exercise some franchise, exert some right.