Noctanter
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
By night. An abolished writ which issued out of chancery, and returned to the queen's bench, for the prostration of inclosures, etc. NOCTES and NOCTEM DE FIRMA. Entertainment of meat and drink for so many nights. Domesday Book. NOCUMENTUM (Lat. harm, nuisance).
In old English law
A thing done whereby another man is annoyed in his free lands or tenements. Also, the assize or writ lying for the same.
Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 183; Old Nat. Brev. 108, 109.
Manw. For. Laws, c. 17, divides nocumentuvt into generale, commune, speciale. Reg. Grig. 197, 199; Coke, Will Case. Nocumentum was also divided into damnosum, for which no action lay, it being done by an irresponsible agent, and injuriosum et damnosum, for which there were several remedies.
Bracton, 221; Fleta, lib. 4, c. 26, § 2.
NOLENS VOLENS (Lat.) Whether willing or unwilling. NOLISSEMENT (Fr. from nolis). In French marine law.
Affreightment.
Ord. Mar. liv.
3, tit. 1.
NOLLE (Lat.) To be unwilling; to will not do a thing; to refuse to do a thing. Used, in the civil law, to denote a voluntary act under full knowledge. Calv. Lex. A distinction was made between nolle and non velle. Id. Ejus est nolle, quie potest velle {q. v.).