Actio Non
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
In pleading. The declaration in a special plea "that the said plaintiff ought not to have or maintain his aforesaid action thereof against" the defendant (in Latin, actio non habere debet). It follows immediately after the statement of appearance and defense.
1 Chit. PI. 531; 2 Chit. PI. 421; Steph. PI. 394.
ACTIO NON ACCREVIT INFRA SEX ANNOS (Lat.) The action did not accrue within six years. ^— In Pleading. A plea of the statute ol within six years. It differs from non assumpsit in this: Non assumpsit is the proper plea to an action on a simple contract, ■when the action accrues on the promise; but when it does not accrue on the promise, but subsequently_ to it, the proper plea is actio non accrevit, etc. Lawes, PI.
733; 5 Bin. (Pa.) 200, 203; 2 Salk. 422; 1 Saund. 33, note 2; 2 Saund. 63b.