Niefe

See Neif. NIENT COMPRISE (Law Fr. not included). An exception taken to a petition because the thing desired is not contained in that deed or proceeding whereon the petition is founded. Toml. Law Diet. NIENT CULPABLE (Daw Fr. not guilty). The name of a plea used to deny any charge of a criminal nature, or in an action for a tort. NIENT DEDIRE (Law Fr. to say nothing). Words used to signify that judgment be rendered against a party because he does not deny the cause of action: i. e. by default. When a fair and impartial trial cannot be had in the county where the venue is laid, the practice in the English courts is, on an affidavit of the circumstances, to change it, in transitory actions; or, in local actions, they will give leave to enter a suggestion on the roll, with a nient dedire, in order to have the trial in another county.

1 Tidd, Pr. 655. See 10 C. B. N. S. 825.

NIENT LE FAIT (Law Fr.). In Pleading. The same as non est factum, a plea by which the defendant asserts that the deed declared upon is not his deed.

NIENT SE 1ST.

In Old Pleading. Not seised. The general plea in a writ of annuity.

Crabb, Eng. L. 424.