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Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law · Frederic Jesup Stimson · 1881

Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law

I. No, not. i[ror King's court usurped the or local courts. Nisi to trials of fact before a the court of a judge on his full bench, or the courts at court; v. Court, 27. A Nisi prius record, roll: pleadings, issue, and jury prouse of the judge at nisi prius. of the writ of venire facias, the men impanelled as jurors before that the justices of: guilty. Nocumentnm: volens: willing or not. formal entry of the plamtiff, that he will not further counts, or as against some that he wiU wholly disto contend.) The name of a case, upon which the accused: a collective name, a Nomen generalissimum: a comprehensive term. Nomen Nomen universitatis; the entire thing, from all points of sunt notse rerum: names pcense (in the name of a in a lease for non-performdamni: in the name of damin turn. with see a plea to an action against the drawee of a bill of exchange. Non accipl debent verba in demonstrationem falsam, quae competunt in limitationem veram: words ought not to be taken for a mistaken description, when they may serve as a good limitation; v.

Falsa demonstratio

Non accrevit infra sex annos (it did not accrue within six years): a plea of the statute of limitations. Non age: v. Nonage. Non aliter a significatione verborum recedi oportet quam cum manifestum est aliud sensisse testatorem: the literal meaning of words ought not to be departed from except when it is clear that the testator meant something else [in using them]. Non assumpsit (he did not promise): the general issue in assumpsit. Non assumpsit infra sez annos (he did not promise within six years): a plea of the statute of Lmitations in assumpsit. Non cepit (he did not take): the general issue in replevin. Non claim: v. Nonclaim. Non concessit (he did not grant): the plea of a defendant, a stranger to a deed or patent relied upon by the plaintiff, denying that it was granted as alleged. Non consentit qui errat: he who mistakes does not consent. Non constat: it does not appear, it is not clear. Non cuV (culpabilis): not guilty. Non damnificatus (not damnified): a plea of performance to an action of debt on a bond of indemnity; V. Bond. Non dat, etc.: v.

Nemo dat

Non debet adduci exceptio, etc.: v.

Bxceptio rei

Non debet cui plus, etc.: V.

Cui licet

Non debet fieri: v. Fieri. Non decimando: v. Le, Modus. Non decipitur qui scit se decipi: a person is not deceived who knows he is being deceived. Non dedit: Ne dona pas. Non demisit (he did not demise): a plea to an action for rent, denying a ^aro/ lease; v.