Nemo duobus utatur officiis
4 Inst. 100. No one should hold two offices, 4 c, at the same time.
Terms beginning with "N" (315 total)
NEMO IN PROPRIA OAUSA
- Nemo in propria causa testis esse debet. No one ought to be a witness in his own cause. 3 Bl. Comm. 371.
NEMO PUNITUR
as where an office descended to a woman, in which case, though she could not exercise the office in person, she might by deputy. Id.
NEMO PUNITUR SINE INJURIA
Nemo punitur sine injuria, facto, seu defalta. No one is punished unless for some wrong, act, or default. 2 Inst. 287.
NEMY
L. Fr. Not. Litt. § 3
NEOESSITAS EXCUSAT 809
Neocessitas excusat aut extenuat de- Hetum in capitalibus, quod non operatur idem in civilibus. . Necessity excuses or extenuates a definquency in capital cases, which has not the same operation in civil cases. Bac. Max.
NEPTIS
Lat. <A granddaughter. NEPUOY. In Scotch law. <A grandson. Skene.
NERSHIP
—Dormant partners. Those whose names are not known or do not appear as partners but who nevertheless are silent partners, an
NETHER HOUSE
Nemo videtur fraudare cos qui sciunt et consentiunt. No one seems [is supposed] — to defraud those who know and assent [to his acts.] Dig. 50, 17, 145.
NETHER HOUSE OF PARLIAMENT
A name given to the English house of commons in the time of Henry VIII.
NEURASTHENIA
_ NEURASTHENIA. In medical jurisprudence. <A condition of weakness or exhaustion of the general nervous system, giving rise to various forms of mental and bodily inefficiency.
Nev
120; Sargent v. Union School Dist.. 63
NEVER INDEBTED, PLEA OF. A
species of traverse which occurs in actions of debt on simple contract, and Is resorted to when the defendant means to deny in point of fact the existence of any express contract to the effect alleged in the declaration,...
Nevitt v. Woodburn, 190 Ill
283, 60 N. B sy, Kennedy yv. Railroad Co. (0. C.) 8 Fed. 108.
New Cases
a Mar.L.©O. English . Maritime Law Caces
New Jersey Midland R. Co
v. Jersey City, 42 N. J. Law, 97.
New London Literary Inst
v. Prebcott, 40 N. H. —_ portions. When a landed estate is settled on an eldest son, it is generally burdened with the payment of specific sums of money in favor of his brothers and sisters. A direction to this effect ...
New Nat. Brey
453. Abolished by 8 & 4
New Orleans, 31 La. Ann
440 mutation of tithes. Signifies the conversion of tithes into a fixed payment in money.—Commutation ticket. A railroad ticket giving the holder the right to travel at a certain rate for a limited number of trips (or ...
New Recop
b. 1, tit. 5, ch. 4 53. b. 1, tit. 7, c. 5, § 2. b. 1, tit. 5, « 1. b. 2, tit. 9, cc. 2.
New York (C. C.) 35 Fed
609; The Allianca (D. C.) 39 Fed. 480; The State of Alabama (D. C.) 17 Fed. 952.
New York & Cuba &. S. Co
v. U. S. D. CGC) 125 Fed. 320.
New York & P. R. Co
(Super. Ct.) 18 N. Y.
New York, 2 Sandf
oN N.Y. 7550. —~Incorporeal hereditaments. ee HEREDITAMENTS.—Ine corporeal property. In the civil law. That which consists in legal right merely. The same as choses in action at common law.—Incorporeal things. In t...
Newark, 55 N. J. Eq
260, 36 Atl. 668; Tennessee Bond Cases, 114 U. S. 663, 5 Sup. Ct. 9714, 29 L. Ed. 281.—Coupon notes. Promissory notes with coupons attached, the coupons being notes for interest written at the bottom
Newb
(or Newb. Adm.). Newberry’s United States District Court, Admiralty Reports.
Newberry, 100 II
1: Winstead v. Evans (Tex.'Civ. App.) S. W. * Coe y. Erb, 59
Newburyport, President, etc
of, v. Stevenson, 7 Allen (Mass.) 493; Broom, Max. 892.
Newell. Newell's Reports, vols
48-90 Illinois Appeals.
NEWSPAPER
222; Veaszie v. Marrett, 6 Allen (Mass.) 372. —New assignment. Under the common-law practice, where the declaration in an action is ambiguous, and the defendant pleads facts which are literally an answer to it, but not...
NEXI
empowered by them, in which the public acts, resolves, advertisements, and notices are requir ed to be published. Albany County v. Chaplin, 5 Wyo. 74, 37 Pac. 370. Lat. In Roman law. Bound; bound persons. A term applied...
NEXUM
Lat. In Roman law. In ancient times the nerum seems to have been a species of formal contract, involving a loan of money, and attended with peculiar consequences, solemnized with the “copper and balance.” Later, it a...
Ney
135, 7 Pac. 280.—Animus lucr The intention to make a gain or profit—Animus manendi. The intention of remaining; intention to establish a permanent residence. 1
Nider, 137 Ala
588. 34 South. 813, 97 Am.
NIDERLING, NIDERING, or NITH
ING. A vile, base person, or sluggard; chicken-hearted. Spelman.
NIGHT
NIHIL
Lat. Nothing. Often contracted to “nil.” The word standing alone is the name of an abbreviated form of return to a writ made by a sheriff or constable, the fuller form of which would be “nihil est” or “nihil ha...
NIHIL SIMUL INVENTUM
ful. Co. Litt. 66e, 97>. A maxim very frequently quoted by Lord Coke, but to be taken in modern lew with some qualification.
NIL
Lat. ‘Nothing. <A contracted form of “nihil,” which see. Nil debet. He owes nothing. The form of the general issue in all actions of debt on simple contract.—Nil habuwit tenemontis. He had nothing [no interest] i...
Nisbet v
ee. 1 Ga. tery ule mages. ee DAMAGES.—Lig t= A debt is liquidated when it is certain what is due and how much is due. Roberts v. Prior, 20 Ga. 562.—Liquidated demand. A demand is a liquidated one if the
NISI
Lat. Unless. The word is oftep affixed, as a kind of elliptical expression, to the words “rule,” “order,” “decree,” “judgment,” or “confirmation,” to indicate that the adjudication spoken of is one’...
NIVICOLLINI BRITONES
Nil facit error nominis cum de corpore vel persona constat. A mistake in the name does not matter when the body or person is manifest. 11 Coke, 21; Broom,
No
9080. 2 vy. Orleans Cotton Press, 18 La. 167, 36 3,747. 15,807. 2, 18 La. 282; Harlan, etc., Co. v. Paschall, 5 Del. Ch. 468. 564. 1 Greenl. Ev. § 348. 16,291. 11,530. ee :
NO AWARD 820
near high mountains covered with snow. Du -Cange.
NOCENT
From Latin “nocere.” Guilty.
NOCTES and NOCTEM DE FIRMA
Entertainment of meat and drink for so many nights. Domesday.
Nol. Mag
(or Just. or Sett. Cas.). lan’s English Magistrates’ Cases.
NOLENS VOLENS
Lat. Whether willing or unwilling; consenting or not.
NOLIS
Fr. In French law. Freight.
NOLLE PROSEQUI
Lat. In practice. A formal entry upon the record, by the plaintiff in a civil suit or the prosecuting officer in a criminal action, by which he declares that he “will no further prosecute” the case, either as to some...