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No marriage, no dower. Walt v. Wait, 4 Barb. (N. Y.) 192, 194.
Nothing which is like another is the same, i. e., no likeness is exact identity. 2 Story, C. C. (U. S.) 512; Story, Partn. 90; Co. Litt. 3a; 2 Bl. Comm. 162. NULLUM SIMILE EST IDEM
Co. Litt. 3. No like is identical, unless it run on all fours.
Nothing similar runs upon four feet, i. e., is on all-fours with.
quod nullum tempus occurrit regi—that the sovereign is exempt from the consequences of its laches, and from the operation of statutes of limitations. The true reason is to be found
St. 3 Geo. III. c. 16. See 32 Geo. III. c. 58, and 7 Wm. III. c. 3. It was so called because the right of the crown to sue, etc., was limited by it to sixty years, in contradiction
No time or place affects the king. 2 Inst. 273; Jenk. Cont. 83; Broom, Max. 65.
Lapse of time does not bar the right of the crown. 2 Inst. 273; 1 Bl. Comm. 247; Broom, Leg. Max. (3d London Ed.) 62; Hob. 347; 2 Steph. Comm. 504; 1 Mass. 355; 2 Brock. C. C. (U.
No time runs [time does not rim] against the commonwealth or state. Levasser v. Washburn, 11 Grat. (Va.) 572.
No time bars the state. See 116 Ga. 313, 59 L. R. A. 101, 42 S. E. 466.
nullum, /. No null void. Nulla bona (no no goods within the county on which a levy could he made. Nulla* pactione effici potest ut dolus prsestetur (by no agreement can it be effec
Co. Litt. 134. No other than the king can command the bishop to make an inquisition.
No one can obtain an advantage by hls own wrong. Co. Litt 148; Broom, Max. 279.
No one can take advantage of his own wrong. See 112 Iowa, 41, 84 Am. St. Rep. 323, 51 L. R. A. 141, 83 N. W. 800.
ubi alia actio subest. Where another form of action is given, no one ought to sue in the action de dolo. 7 Coke, 92. NULLUS DICITUR ACCESSORIUS post feloniam sed ille qui novit pri
Where another action exists, no one ought to sue in an action for fraud.
- Nullus dicitur accessorius post feloniam, sed ille qui novit principalem feloniam fecisse, et illnm receptavit et comfortavitdefined inBlack's (1910)
3 Inst. 138. No one is called an "accessary" after the fact but he who knew the principal to have committed a felony, and received and comforted him.
- Nullus dicitur accessorius post felo-niam sed ille qui novit principalem feloniam fecisse, et illum receptavit et comfortavitdefined inBallentine's (1916)
No one is called an accessory after the felony but that one who knew that the principal had committed the felony and he received him and comforted him.
- Nullus dicitur felo principalis nisi actor, ant qui praesens est, abettans ant anxilians ad feloniam faciendamdefined inBlack's (1910)
No one is called a "principal felon" except the party actually committing the felony, or the party present aiding and abetting in its commission.
- Nullus dicitur felo principalis nisi actor, ant qui praesens est, abet-tans aut auxiUans actorem ad feloniam faciendamdefined inBallentine's (1916)
No one is called a principal felon except the person committing, or one who is present abetting or aiding him in the commission of the felony.
No person is understood to be a competent witness in his own cause. Dig. 22, 5, 10.
No one is deemed to be a qualified witness in his own behalf.
Another can forfeit no (one’s) right.
No one departs from a court of chancery without a remedy.
No like is exactly identical unless it runs on all fours.
No one is deemed to work a fraud, who exercises his own right. See 67 Conn. 91, 52 Am. St. Rep. 270, 32 L. R A. 236, 34 Atl. 714.
No one is considered to act with guile who uses his own right. Dig. 50, 17, 55; Broom, Max. 130.
No one ought to enrich himself at the expense of others.
No one ought to enrich himself at the expense of others.
No one shall take advantage of hls own wrong.' 2 Inst 713; Broom, Max. 290
No one shall take advantage of his own wrong. See 112 La. 363, 65 L. R. A. 129, 36 South 414.
Jenk. Cent. 323. No one shall have error or attaint unless he has sustained damage.
No one shall have error or attaint, without damage.
No such award. See Nul agard .
No such corporation exists. The form of a plea denying the existence of an alleged corporation. NUL TIEL RECORD (Fr. no such record). In pleading. A plea which is proper when it is
The pleadings in an action are governed by the dignity of the instrument on which it is founded. If it be a record, conclusive between the parties, it cannot be denied but by the p
No wrong, at one time the general issue in a real action.
- Nul Wastedefined inCyclopedic (1922)Ballentine's (1916)Bouvier (1914)Black's (1910)Black's (1891)Bouvier (1839)
In pleading. The general issue in an action of waste. 3 Inst. 700a, 708a. The plea of nul waste admits nothing, but puts the whole declaration in issue; and in support of this plea
No waste committed. Same as Nul waste.
A collection of units. NUMERATA PECUNIA (Lat.) In civil law. Money counted or paid; money given in payment by count. L. 3, 10, C. de non numerat. pecun.; Vicat. NUMMATA TERRAE (Law
the bonds must be approved by a majority of the property taxpayers voting and their votes must also represent a 'majority of the assessed property owned by those taxpayers who are
In this title, the term “numbered vessel” means a vessel for which a number has been issued under chapter 123 of this title.
the term “number of elapsed years” means (except as otherwise provided by section 104(j)(2) of the Social Security Amendments of 1972) the number of calendar years after 1950 (or,
among those personnel both attorneys ""and consultants"? "Who but experts could those consultants be? Why would Congress want the GAO to study the hours that those experts "spent,"
freight that started and ended in the state.
The term “number portability” means the ability of users of telecommunications services to retain, at the same location, existing telecommunications numbers without impairment of q
constructing the platform of a reaping machine, upon which the cut grain falls as it is cut, in the shape of a quadrant, or of a sector of a circle, placed just behind the cutting
Money counted out.
The term "numeric materiality standard" means a dollar amount of misstatements, including omissions, contained in an incurred cost audit that would be material if the mis
A certain number is placed for an uncertain one.
Numismatic item.—The term "numismatic item" means any medal, proof coin, uncirculated coin, bullion coin, or other coin specifically designated by statute as a numismatic
Numismatic operations and programs.—The term "numismatic operations and programs"— (A) means the activities concerning, and assets utilized in, the production, administra
The price of anything in money, as denariata is the price of a thing by computation of pence, and librata of pounds.
An a ore of land. Spelman.
In civil law. A formal proclamation or protest. It may be by acts (realis) or by words. Mackeld. Civ. Law, § 237. Thus, nunciatio novi operis was an injunction which one man could
- Nunciodefined inCyclopedic (1922)Ballentine's (1916)Bouvier (1914)Black's (1910)Black's (1891)Anderson (1889)
The name given to the pope's ambassador. Nuncios are ordinary or extraordinary; the former are sent upon usual missions, the latter upon special occasions.
- Nunciusdefined inCyclopedic (1922)Ballentine's (1916)Bouvier (1914)Black's (1910)Black's (1891)Bouvier (1839)
In international law. A messenger; a minister; the pope's legate, commonly called a "nuncio."
- Nunc pro tuncdefined inBallentine's (1916)Black's (1910)Kinney (1893)Black's (1891)Anderson (1889)Stimson (1881)Abbott (1879)Bouvier (1839)
Now for then. See Judgment nunc pro tunc .
A nunc pro tunc order is always admissible, when the delay has arisen from the act of the court.
Lat In the civll law. flip name; to pronounce orally or in words without writing.
To declare publicly and solemnly.
5 Originally, to pronounce or declare publicly in solemn words. In the civil law, to pronounce orally or in words without writing; to dictate. 6 Whence nuncupatory, nuncupation. A
is used to ex-, press that a will or. testament has been made verbally, and not in writing. Vide Testament, nuncupative; Will, nuncupative; 1 Williams on Exec. 59; Swinb. Index, h.
- Nuncupative Willdefined inCyclopedic (1922)Ballentine's (1916)Bouvier (1914)Black's (1910)Black's (1891)Abbott (1879)
An oral will, declared by a testator, in extremis, before witnesses, and afterwards reduced to writing. 4 Kent, Comm. 576; 2 Bl. Comm. 500; 1 Jarm. Wills (Perkins Ed.) 130-136. See
Oral directions as to the disposal of the testator's property, made before witnesses, and not immediately reduced to writing.
Lat. In the civll and old English law. A fair. In nundinis et mercatis, in fairs and markets. Bract fol. 56.
Fairs; a fair.
Traffic at fairs and markets; any buying and selling.
It is not every loss that produces an injury. Bract fol. 45b.
Never.
The degree of a past offense never increases from a subsequent act.
The character of a past offense is never aggravated by a subsequent act or matter. Dig 50, 17, 139, 1; Bac. Max. p. 38, reg. 8; Broom, Max. 42.
- Nunquam decurritur ad extraordinarium sed ubi deficit ordinariumdefined inBallentine's (1916)Black's (1910)
Resort is never made to the extraordinary until the ordinary fails.
Therei is no fiction without law, NUNQUAM INDEBITATUS (Lat. never indebted). In pleading. A plea to an action of indebitatus assumpsit, by which the defendant asserts that he is no
Never indebted.
That which is never said sufficiently is never said too much.
Prescription never exists in case of fraud.
Human affairs never come to prosper when divine matters are neglected.
Co. Litt. 15. Human things never prosper where divine things are neglected.
or NUNCIUS. In old English practice. One who made excuse for absence of one summoned; an apparitor, beadle, or sergeant. Cowell. A messenger or legate, e. g., pope's nuncio. Jacob.
He recently died, a writ to recover possession for a coheiress dispossessed by her coparcener.
Nuptials; marriage.
A second or subsequent marriage after the first.
Of or pertaining to the tal relation.
consensus facit. Not cohabitation, but sent, makes the marriage. Dig. 50. 17.,1 Bouv. Inst, note 239; Co. Litt. 33.
Co.. Litt. 33. Not cohabitation but consent makes the marriage.
Not consummation, but consent makes a marriage.
/. Marriage. Nuptias non concubitus sed confacit: the not the makes the
Lat A second marriage. In the canon law, this term included any marriage subsequent to the first.
The term “nurse” means a nurse who meets all of the following: (A) The nurse graduated from— (i) an accredited school of nursing (as those terms are defined in section 296 of title
In this paragraph, the term “nurse aide” means any individual providing nursing or nursing-related services to residents in a skilled nursing facility, but does not include an indi
The term “nurse managed health clinic” means a nurse-practice arrangement, managed by advanced practice nurses, that provides primary care or wellness services to underserved or vu
The term “physician assistant” and the term “nurse practitioner” mean, for purposes of this subchapter, a physician assistant or nurse practitioner who performs such services as su
The term “nursery tree grower” means a person who produces nursery, ornamental, fruit, nut, or Christmas trees for commercial sale, as determined by the Secretary. / The term "
The term "nursing facility" means a facility or institution (or a distinct part of an institution) that is primarily engaged in providing to residents of the facility or
For purposes of this subchapter, the term “nursing facility services” means services which are or were required to be given an individual who needs or needed on a daily basis nursi
“nursing home” means any institution or facility defined as such for licensing purposes under State law, or, if State law does not employ the term nursing home, the equivalent term
“nursing home administrator” means any individual who is charged with the general administration of a nursing home whether or not such individual has an ownership interest in such
the accommodation of convalescents who require nursing care and related medical services.
In this section, the term “nursing staff” includes the following: (1) A registered nurse. (2) A licensed practical or vocational nurse. (3) A nurse assistant appointed under this c