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Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
A writ prohibiting an ordinary from taking a pecuniary mulct imposed upon a clerk of the king’s for non-residence.
Cowell.
NON SUBMISSIT (Lat.). The name of a plea to an action of debt on a bond to perform an award, by which the defendant pleads that he did not submit. Bacon, Abr. Arbitration, etc. (G).
NON SUM INF0RMATUS (Lat.).
I am not informed. See Judgment. NON TENENT INSIMUL (Lat. they do not hold together). A plea to an action in partition, by which the defendant denies that he holds the property which is the subject NON TENUIT (Lat. he did not hold). The name of a plea in bar in replevin, when the defendant has avowed for rent-arrear, by which the plaintiff avows that he did not hold in manner and form as the avowry alleges.
Rose. Ileal Act. 62S.