A Law Dictionary and Glossary

Not admitting of bail; not requiring ball.

In old English law. The omission or neglect of one who ought to challenge his right within a time limited, by which neglect he was barred of his right or of his entry.

In the Roman calendar, the fifth day of the month, except in March, May, July and October, when they fell on the seventh.

A not doing; an omission to do something that ought to be done.

Omission to join one or more persons as parties plaintiff or defendant

One who has not sworn; one who has not taken, or has refused to take, a prescribed oath, as an oath of allegiance.

Neglect to use a franchise; neglect to exercise an office; neglect or omission to use an easement or other right

infertnr adnu Uatio actus: where form is not observed, an annulling of the act is inferred, or follows. Non obstante veredicto: notwithstanding the verdict; the name of a judgment

l.fr. and eng. In old English law. A neglect or default in a defendant to replevy in due time land taken into the king's hand, by reason of default.

ab. nonpros.: he does not prosecute; the name of an entry and judgment on the part of a defendant, where the plaintiff fails to declare in due time, by which the action is terminat

Want of residence; cessation of residence; neglect or, failure of residenca v. Residence.

One who does not reside, or is not a resident; one who resides out of a particular place or jurisdiction, v. Resident.

nonsuyt, nonsute, I. fr. In old English law. A not following; a neglect to follow; an omission to follow up or prosecute an action.

I. fr. In old English law. To nonsuit. Nonsuy: nonsuited.

A failure to follow up a cause; a relinquishment of a cause by the plaintiff at the trial, either voluntary or by the order of the court; an order at the trial, compelling the plai

A plea by a tenant in a real action, where he is not in fact the tenant of the freehold, denying that he was tenant of the freehold of the land or rent demanded, etc.

The time of vacation between term and term.

noysaunce, l.fr. A nuisance; an act done by one to the injury of another's freehold.

I. Om-s; our own. v. Id quod, etc.

I In old English law. A note or memorandum of a charter or deed, drawn up preparatory to the execution of the charter itself; a promissory note. In the civil law. A mark or brand p

I. In the civil law. To mark or brand with infamy, or disgi'ace.

Belonging to a notary; made or done by a notary.

A public of Bcer by or before whom various acts, chiefiy in mercantile matters, are required to be done, such as the protest of negotiable paper, marine protests in cases of loss,

The indorsement made by a grand jury on a bill of indictment when they find it not sustained by the evidence, and are not satisfied of the truth of the accusation. Not guilty: the

Notitia, /. Knowledge, actual, called actual notice, or implied, called implied notice, which latter arises when such an act is done, or such a state of facts exists, as would put

I. In the civil law. The power of hearing and trying a matter of fact; the power or authority of a. judex.

I. In the civil law. Knowledge; information; intelligence.

sc. In Scots law. Open; public; notorious.

I. New. Nova constitutio futuris formam imponere debet, non prxteritis: anew statute or enactment ought to px-escribe form V to future acts, not to those that are past Nova statnta

I. In the civil law. A making new; a change of a former debt or obligation into another of the same or a different kind, either by a change of the persons, or by a change in the ob

A change of one debt or obligation into another; a substitution of a new debt or obligation for an old one.

I. fr. New; recent. Novel assignment: a new assignment Novel disseisin: recent disseisin.

The New Constitutions (Novella or Novellce Qonstitutiones) of Justinian and his successors, now a part of the Corpus Juris Civilis.

1. 1. In old English law..Know all men; introductory words of conveyances from a very early period; — per praesentes: know all men by these presents.

In Saxon law. A pecuniary satisfaction for an injury, nine times the value of the thing for which it was paid. No vis injuriis emersis, nova constituuntur remedia, 1. As new injuri

I. In the civil law. A protest against, or prohibition of, a new work.

1. Novelty; newness. Novitas non tam utilitate prodest quani novitate perturbat: a novelty does not benefit so muth by its utility as it disturbs by its novelty.

I. I. Newly come to the knowledge.

I I. In old Scots law. We give anew; the name of a charter, or clause in a charter, granting a renewal of a right Novum judicium non dat jus novum, sed declarat antiquum, I A new j

I. In the civil law. A new work.

I. In the civil law. A slave who had committed an offense, or done any damage or injury; the obligation to make good an injury so committed; an offense; the punishment of an offens

I. In the dvil law. An action which lay against the master of a slave, for some offense committed, or damage or injury done by the slave.

I. In the civil law. An offense committed, or damage done by a slave, or an animal.

Hm-tful; offensive to the smell.

A contract without a consideration, v. Nudum pactum.

nusance. Annoyance; any thing that annoys, incommodes or offends; any thing that renders life or the ordinary use or occupation of property uncomfortable. The former remedy, to som

Ifr. No; none. Nul agard, nul fait agard, nnl tiel agard: no award, no award made, no such award; the name of a plea denying the award in an action on an arbiti'ation bond. Nul ass

1. I. No goods; the technical name of the return to a wi'it of fieri facias, where the party named in the writ has no property subject to levy. Nulla curia quae recordum non habet,

Want of legal efficacy; nothing; no proceeding; an act or proceeding of no effect

I. A son of nobody; a bastard. Nullins hoiuinls anetoritas, apud nos Talere debet ut meliora nou sequereraur si quis attulerit: the authority of no man ought to prevail with us, so

No award. Nullum crimen majus est inobedientia: no crime is greater than disobedience; applied to the refusal of an officer to return a writ. Nullum exemplum est idem omnibus: no e

1. In the civil laic. Money told or counted; money paid by tale. Nnmerxis certns pro incerto ponitnr, I. A definite number is put for an uncertain one.

I. I. Now for then; a term applied to such acts as are allowed to be done after the time when they should have been done, with the same effect as if they had been done At the prope

I. In the civil law. To name; to pronounce orally; or in words without writing. Nuncnpare haaredem: to name one's heir viva voce, befoi-e witnesses.

I. Never. Nunquam decnrritnr ad extraordinarinm sed nbi deficit ordinarinm: we are never to resort to what is extraornary, but where [until] what is ordinary fails. Nunqnam fuit ba

fr. No land without a lord; a maxim o( feudal law. Null! Tendemus, null! negabimns, aut differemns rectum, ant justitiani, I. To no one will we sell, to no one will we deny or dela

I. I, In old English law. An area or space lying within the enclosure of a dw^elling-house.

A declaration or promise before some authorized ofl Bcer corroborated by an appeal to God, and accompanied by some outward manual act or foi*m, as touching or kissing the Gospels,

I In the Roman law. A debtor who was obliged to serve his creditor till his debt was discharged.

l. I. Obedience; submission; a kind of rent Obedientia est legis essentia: obedience is the essence of law. In the canon law. An office, or the administration of an offica

I. In old English law. He dies; a funeral solemnity, or office for the dead; the anniversary of a person's death; the aniversary office. V. Post.

I By the way; in passing. Obiter dictnm: an opinion of a

A thing aimed at; an end sought to be accomplished; a thing presented to the mind or the senses.

I. Gifts or oflferings to the crown, anciently a regular source of royal revenue.

I. In the chnl law. An action given to a party against another who had offered to him a stolen thing, found in his passession.

1. In the civil law. An offering or tender of money by u. debtor to his creditor, in payment of the debt.

l.fr. Obligation. Obligacion est na lien de droit: obligation is a bond of law.

Lat. In the civil and old English law. Obligation; a bond or writing obligatory. Obligatio est juris vinculum, quo necessitate astringimur ad aliquod dandum vel faciendum: obligati

A tie, a thing which binds; a legal duty or liability; an undertaking under seal; the instrument by which such an undertaking is witnessed; a bond or writing in the nature of a bon

' The party to whom another is bound; the party to whom abond is given.

A party who binds himself, as by a bond; the party by whom' a bond is given.

Z. In the civil law. A kind of rent, or income.

In old English law. The rents or revenues of spiritual livings.

I In the civil law. To make a law contrary to a former law;. to change a former law.

Grown out of use; disused; antiquated.

I. Withstanding; hindering, v. Non obstante.

I. Withstand the beginnings.

Z. I. In old English law. To stop up. Obstnparit et obstruxit: stopped and obstructed.

I. To obey. Obtemperandnm est consaetiidini rationabili tanqnam legi, l A reasonable custom is to be obeyed as law.

I. In old English law. Offered himself; the emphatic words of entry on the record where one party offered himself iu court against the other, and the latter did not appear.

1 1. In old English law. Molestation; hindrance; vexation by suit

I L In old English law. To molest; to vex or harass with

I. In the cicil law. A taking possession of a thing which before belonged to nobody.

I. In old English law. A hiding. Occnltatlo thesauri in- Tenti fraud niosa: the fraudulent concealment of treasure trova

The taking of possession of those things which before belonged to nobody; the taking of possession by any one of a thing of which there is no owner; the right acquired by such taki

In a general sense, one who takes possession of a thing of which there is no owner; one who takes possession of a thing which has been abandoned. In a special sense, one who takes

I In the civil law. To seize or take possession of; to enter upon a vacant possession; to take possession before another.

In old 'English law. The putting a man out of his freehold in time of war; use, tenure or possession; usurpation of a franchise: a trade or business.

I. I. In old English law. A writ that lay for one who was ejected from his land or tenement in time of war.

I To meet: to run against; to stop or bar.

In old English law. The eighth day after a feast; one of the return days.

the ides fell on the 15th; and in the law. An instrument privately executed, instrument executed before a public officer. mind in which the reflective, and all or a powers are eith

I. I. In old English law. Eight such; a writ issued to the sheriff to summon eight such men as were summoned on the first panel, to make up a deficiency of jurors.

I. Odious things are not presumed. (Economlcus, 1. 1. In old English law. The executor of a will. (Economus, /. In the civil law. A manager or administrator. (Eps, «es, I. fr. Use.

I. To bear or carry; to without words; to manage, or to act as heir.

In Saxon law. A pecuniary compensation for an injury, eight times the value of the thing.

I I. In old English law. The morsel of execration; the corsned, q. v.

An act committed against a law, or omitted where the law requires it, and punishes for the omission; a crime.

One who holds an ofl Sce; a person lawfully invested with an office. Officer de facto: one who colore offlcii assumes to exercise official authority. Officer de jure: a rightful of

An officer; iu English ecclesiastical law, the person to whom the archdeacon substitutes in the execution of his jurisdiction. In the civil law. The minister or apparitor of a magi