N.E.I
Defined in 2 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Bouvier (1914)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
Chit. Prac. NON EST JUSTUM ALIQUEM ANTENAtum post mortem facere bastardum, qui toto tempore vitae suae pro legitimo habebatur. It is not just to make an elder born a bastard after his death, who during his lifetime was accounted legitimate. 12 Coke, 44. NON EST NOVUM UT PRIORES LEGIS ad forum ecclesiasticum noscitur pertinere. thing that prior statutes shall give place to later ones. Dig. 1. 3. 26; Id. 1. 1. 4; Broom, Leg. Max. (3d London Ed.) 27. NON EST RECEDENDUIVI A COMIVIUNI observanti. There should be no departure from a common observance. 2 Coke, 74.
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
(non est inventus). The effect of execution by a ca. sa. is to prevent suing out any other process against the lands or goodsof the person arrested, at common law; but this is modified by statutes in the modern law. See Execution.