Black's Law Dictionary
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In old English law. A woman who was bom a villein or a bondwoman.
- Neighborhooddefined inCase LawCyclopedic (1922)Bouvier (1914)Black's (1910)Black's (1891)Abbott (1879)
A place near; an adjoining or surrounding district; a more immediate vicinity; vicinage. See Langley v. Barnstead, 63 N. H. 246; Madison v. Morristown Gaslight Co.., 65 N. J. Eq. 3
Lat. In old English practice, A prohibitory writ, com manding a lord not to demand from the tenant more services than were justly due by the tenure under which his ancestors held.
An abbreviated form of docket entry, meaning that, by agreement, neither of the parties will further appear in court in that suit. Gendron v. Hovey, 98 Me, 139, 56 AU. 583.
Lat In the civil law. The name of a servitude which restrains the owner of a house from making such erections as obstruct the light of the adjoining house. Dig. 8, 4, 15. 17.
In Swedish and Gothic law. A jury. 3 Bl. Comm. 349, 359.
Lat No one dissenting; no one voting in the negative. A phrase used to indicate the unanimous consent of a court or legislative body to a judgment, resolution, vote, or motion. Com
Go. Litt. 97b. No man ought to be wiser than the lawn.
Lat. No one; no man. The initial word of many Latin phrases and maxims, among which are the following:
Jenk. Cent. 40. No man is to be admitted to incapacitate himself.
No man acts against himself. Jenk. Co.nt. p. 40, case 76. A man cannut be a judge and a party in his own cause. Id.; Broom, Max. 2l6n.
No man is considered a competent defender of another's property, without security. A rnie of the Roman law, applied in part in admiralty cases. 1 Curt. 202.
No one can sue in the name of another. Dig. 50, 17, 123.
No one alleging his own baseness is to be heard. The courts of law have properly rejected this as a rule of evidence. 7 Term In 601.
No one suffers punishment on account of bis thoughts. Tray. Lat Max. 362.
No man is compelled to sell his own property, even for a just price, 4 Inst 275.
No man can contravene or contradict his own deed. 2 Inst 66. The principle of estoppel by deed. Best, Ev. p. 408, § 370.
No man can give that which he has not. Fleta, llb. 3, c. 15, § A
He who hath not cannot give. Jenk. Cent 250; Broom, Max. 499n; 6 GB. (N. S.) 478.
No man ought to be punished twice for one offense. 4 Coke, 43a; 11 Coke, 59b. No man shall be placed in peril of legal penalties more than once upon the same accusation. Broom, Max
No man onght to be a judge in his own cause. 12 Coke, 114a. A maxim derived from the civil law. Cod. 3, 5. Called a "fundamental rule of reason and of natural justice." Burrows, Se
No one should intermeddle with a thing that in no respect concerns hiin. Jenk. Cant p. 18, case 32.
No one ought to be enriched by another's loss. Dig. 6, 1, 48, 65 ; 2 Kent, Comm. 336; 1 Kames, Eq. 331.
No one ought to be made rich out of another's loss. Jenk. Cent. 4; Taylor v. Baldwin, 10 Barb. (N. Y.) 626, 633.
No man ought to lose his property without his own act or default Ch Litt 263a.
No onct can be dragged out of his own house. In other words, every man's house is his castle. Dig. 50, 17, 108.
No man ought to be twice troubled or harassed [if it appear to the court that it is] for one and the same cause. 5 Coke, 61a. No man can be sued a second time for the same cause of
No one should be retained in a partnership against his will. Selden v. Vermilya, 2 Sandf. (N. Y.) 568, 593; United Ins. Co. v. Scott, 1 Johns. (N. Y.) 106, 114.
4 Inst. 100. No one shouid hold two offices, i. e., at the same time.
No one can at the same time be the heir and the owner of the same tenement. See 1 Reeve, Eng. Law, 106.
- Nemo enim aliquam partem recte intelligere possit antequam totum iterum atque iterum perlegeritdefined inBlack's (1910)
No one is able rightly to understand one part before he has again and again read through the whole. Broom, Max. 593.
No one is the heir of a llving person. Co. Litt. 8a, 22b. No one can be heir during the lire of his ancestor. Broom, Max. 522, 523. No person can be the actual complete heir of ano
No one is above the law. Lofft, 142.
No man ought to be burdened in consequence of another's act. 2 Kent, Comm. 646.
No man is bound in consequence of his advice. Mere advice will not create the obligation of a mandate. Story, Baiim. § 155.
Let no one be relieved or gain an advantage by his own fraucL A civil law maxim.
No one maintains an action arising out of his own wrong. Broom, Max. 297.
- Nemo ex suo delicto meliorem suam conditionem facere potestdefined inBallentine's (1916)Black's (1910)
No one can make his condition better by his own misdeed. Dig. 50, 17, 134 L
No man is punished twice for the same offense. 4 BL Comm. 315; 2 Hawk. P. 0. 377.
No man ought to be condemned without being heard uniess he be contumacious. Jenk. Cont. p. 18, case 12, in marg.
No one ought to be a witness in his own cause. 3 Bl. Comm. 371.
No one can declare the law for himself. ' No one is entitled to take the law into his own hands. Tray. Lat Max. 366.
No man who is warring for [in the service of] God should be involved in secular matters. Co. Litt. 70b. A principle of the old law that men of religion were not bound to go in pers
Co. Litt. 07. No one is bom an artificer.
No man can renounco the country in which he was born, nor abjure the obligation of his allegiance. Co. Litt. 129a; Broom, Max. 75; Fost. Cr. Law, 184.
No one lcaves a greater benefit to his heir than he had himself. Dig. 50, 17, 120.
- Nemo plus juris ad alium transferre potest quam ipse habetdefined inBallentine's (1916)Black's (1910)
No one can transfer more right to another than he has himself. Dig. 50, 17, 54; Broom, Max. 467, 469.
No one can verify by the country against a record. 2 Inst. 380. The issue upon matter of record cannot be to the jury. A maxim of old practice.
No man can be both owner and heir. Hale, Co.m. Law, a 7.
No one can be at once suitor and judge. Broom, Max. 117.
No man can be both tenant and lord [of the same tenement.] Gilb. Ten. 142.
No one can do that by another which he cannot do of himself. Jenk. Cent p. 237, case 14. A rule said to hold in original grants, but not in descents; as where an office descended t
No man can do that indirectly which he cannot do directly. 1 Eden, 512.
No man can change his purpose to another's injury. Dig. 50, 17, 75 ; Broom, Max. 34.
- Nemo potest plus juris ad alium transferre quam ipse habetdefined inBallentine's (1916)Black's (1910)
Co.. Litt. 309; Wing. Max. 56. No one can transfer a greater right to another than he himself has.
No one can owe to himself.
No man is presumed to have preferred another's posterity to his own. Wing. Max. p. 285, max. 79.
No one is presumed to give. Haren v. Foster, 9 Pick. (Mass.) 128, 19 Am. Dec. 353.
- Nemo praesumitur esse immemor suss œternæ salutis, et maxime in articnlo mortisdefined inBlack's (1910)
6 Coke, 76. No one is presumed to be forgetful of his own eternal welfare, and particularly at the point of death.
No one is presumed to trifle at the point of dcath.
No one is presumed to be bad.
No one is prohibited from following several kinds of business or several arts. 11 Coke, 54a. The common law doth not prohibit any person from using several arts or mysteries at his
Co. Litt. 304a. No one is prohibited from making use of several defenses.
One is not present unless he understands.
- Nemo prudens punit ut praeterita revocentur, sed ut futura praevenianturdefined inBallentine's (1916)Black's (1910)
No wise man punishes in order that past things may be recalled, but that future wrongs may be prevented. 2 Bulst. 173.
Wing. Max. 336. No one is punished for another's wrong.
No one is punished uniess for some wrong, act or default. 2 Inst. 287.
No one who may condemn is unable to acquit. Dig. 50, 17, 37.
No one,ought to be his own judge or the tribunal in his own affairs. Broom, Max. 116, 121. See In R. 1 C. P. 722, 747.
- Nemo sine aetione experitur, et boo non sine breve sive libello conventionalidefined inBlack's (1910)
No one goes to law without an action, and no one can bring an action without a writ or bill. Bract, fol. 11Z
No one is bound to an impossibility. Jenk. Cent 7; Broom, Max. 244.
Wing. Max. 665. No one is bound to arm his adversary against himself.
No man is bound to divine or to have foreknowledge of, a future event 10 Coke, 55a.
No man is bound to produce writings against himself. A rule of the Roman law, adhered to in criminal prosecutions, but departed from in civll questions. Bell.
- Nemo tenetur informare qui nescit, sed quisquis scire quod informatdefined inBallentine's (1916)Black's (1910)
Branch, Princ. No one is bound to give information about things he is ignorant of, but every one is bound to know that which he gives information about.
No ohe is bound to swear to the fact of his own criminality; no one can be forced to give his own oath in evidence of his guilt Bell; Halk. 100.
No one is bound to betray himself. In other words, no one can be compelled to criminate himself. Broom, Max. 968.
Wing. Max. 486. No one is bound to accuse himself.
No one is bound to expose himself to misfortunes and dangers. Co. Litt. 253b.
No one can ever be a Judge in his own cause.
No one was ever a great man without some divine inspiration. Cicero.
No one seems [is supposed] to defraud those who know and assent [to his acts.] Dig. 50, 17, 145.
In Fr. Not Litt § 3.
The son of a brother or sister. But the term, as used in wills and other documents, may include the children of half brothers and sisters and also grandnephews, If such be the appa
Lat. A grandson.
Lat. A granddaughter.
In Scotch law. A grandson. Skene.
Lat. That nothing shall be done (put or erected) in a public place or way. The title of an interdict in the Roman law. Dig. 48, 8.
Lat. That it be not received. A caveat or warning given to a law officer, by a party in a cause, not to receive the next proceedings of hla opponent 1 Sell. Pr. 8.
L. Lat. The statute 35 Edw. I. § 2, prohibiting rectors, i. e„ parsons, from cutting down the trees in church-yards. In Rutland v. Green, 1 Keb. 557, it was extended to prohibit th
In Fr. Did not release. Where the defendant had pleaded a release, this was the proper replication by way of traverse.
- Netdefined inCyclopedic (1922)Ballentine's (1916)Bouvier (1914)Black's (1910)Kinney (1893)Abbott (1879)
Clear of anything extraneous; with all deductions, such as charges, expenses, discounts, commissions, taxes, etc.; free from expenses. St. John v. Erie R. Co., 22 Wall. 148, 22 In
The proceeds of sale, after deducting expenses. Evans v. Wain, 7l Pa-69.
See Earnings.
- Nether House of Parliamentdefined inCyclopedic (1922)Ballentine's (1916)Bouvier (1914)Black's (1910)
A name given to the English house of commons in the time of Henry VIIL
The profit or income accruing from a business, fund, estate, etc., after deducting nil necessary charges and expenses of every kind. Jones & Nimick Mfg. Co. v. Com., 69 Pa. 137; In
In the business of life insurance, this term is used to designate that portion of the premium which is intended to meet the cost of the insurance, bath current and future; its amou
The lowest price, after deducting all discounts.
Theoretically nil profits are "net." But as the expression "gross profits" is sometimes used to describe the mere excess of present value over former value, or of returns from sale
The net tonnage of a vessel is the difference between the entire cubic contents of the interior of the vessel numbered in tons and the space occupied by the crew and by propelling