Nem
Defined in 4 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Black's (1891), Stimson (1881)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
See "Nerny." NEMINEM OPORTET ESSE SAPIENTIOrem legibus. No man need be wiser than the laws. Co. Litt. 97. NEMO ADMITTENDUS EST INHABILItare selpsum. No one is allowed to incapacitate himself. Jenk. Cent. Cas. 40. But see "To Stultify;" 5 Whart. (Pa.) 371; 2 Kent, Comm. 451, note.
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
A Dictionary of Law
Henry Campbell Black · 1891
Lat. He did not break the contract. The name of a plea sumetimes pleaded in the action of covenant, and intended asa general issue, but held to be a bad plea; there being, preperly speaking, no gencral issue in that action. 1 Tidd, Pr. 356.
Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law
Frederic Jesup Stimson · 1881
con., Nemine contradicente, /. Neminem oportet esse sapientiorem sliould be wiser than the laws.