Null
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Properly, that which does not exist; that which is not in the nature of things. In a figurative sense, it signifies that which has no more effect than if it did not exist.
8 Tou Uier, Dr. Civ. note 320.
NULLA BONA (Law Lat. no goods). The return made to a writ of fieri facias by the sheriff, when he has not found any goods of the defendant on which he could levy.
3 Bouv. Inst, note 3393.
NULLA CURIA QUAE RECORDUM non habet potest Tmponere finem, neque aliquem mandare carceri, quia ista spectant tantummodo ad curias de recordo. No court which has not a record can impose a fine, or commit any person to prison, because those powers belong only to courts of record.
8 Coke, 60.
NULLA EMPTIO SINE PRETIO ESSE potest
There can be no sale without a price.
4 Pick. (Mass.) 189.
NULLA IMPOSSIBILIA AUT INHONESta sunt praesumenda; vera autem et honesta et posslbilla. No impossible or dishonorable things are to be presumed, but things true, honorable, and possible.
Co. Litt. 78.
NULLA PACTIONE EFFICI POTEST ne dolus praestetur. By no agreement can it be effected that there shall be no accountability for fraud.
Dig. 2. 14. 27. 3; Broom, Leg. Max. (3d London Ed.) 622, 118, note; 5 Maule & S. 466.