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Nuper Obiit

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

Lately deceased

The name of a writ, in old English practice, issued on behalf of a coheiress, dispossessed by her coparcener of lands of which their common ancestor died seised in fee-simple, to establish a proper division of the lands. The name was derived from the Latin words in a clause of the writ referring to the ancestor who had lately deceased.

NUPTI^.

Nuptials; marriage.

Nuptiae secundse

A second marriage. In the canon law, this term included any marriage subsequent to the first. See Bigamy. Nuptias non concubitus sed consensus faoit. Not cohabitation, but