Nunquam
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence · Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
Never. The initial word of several Latin phrases and maxims; among them, the following: Nunquam crescit ez post facto praeteriti delicti aestimatio. The quality of a past offence is never aggravated by that which happens subsequently. The character and extent of a crime are determined at the time it is committed; no subsequent aot of the offender can enhance it.
Nuuquam indebitatus
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. This plea was also substituted in English practice for the plea of nil debet, as the general issue in an action of debt on simple contract. Nunquam prssscribitur in falso. There is never a prescription in case of falsehood. No right of prescription cau be founded upon that which is criminally false. In this maxim of the civil law, the word falso represents what is usually termed the crimen falsi (q. v. ); and the distinction intended is, that the rule which allows a defective title to be perfected by prescription does not apply where the title is founded in falso, as upon forgery of a deed.