NOLO CONTENDERE
Lat. I will not contest it. The name of a plea in a criminal action, having: the same legal effect as a plea of guilty, so far as regards all proceedings on the indictment, and on which the defendant may be sentenced. U....
Terms beginning with "N" (315 total)
NOMEM
admission elsewhere. Com. v. Tilton, 8 Metc. (Mass.) 232. Not available as an estoppel in a civil action. Com. v. Horton, 9 Pick. (Mass.) 206.
NOMEN
Lat. In the civil law. <A name; the name, style, or designation of a person. Properly, the name showing to what gens or tribe he belonged, as distinguished from his own individual name, (the prenomen,) from his surname o...
Nomina sunt nots rerum
11 Coke, .20. Names are the notes of things.
NOMINA TRANSCRIPTITIA. In Ro
man law. Obligations contracted by Ktere (i. 6., literis obligationes) were so called because they arose from a peculiar transfer (transcriptto) from the creditor's day-book fadverseria) into his ledger, (codez.)
NOMINATIM
Lat. By name; expressed one by one.
NOMINATING AND REDUCING. A
‘mode of obtaining a panel of special jurors
NOMINATIO AUCTORIS
and the possessors thereof, in each county, drawn up by several sheriffs, (9 Edw. II.,) and returned by them into the exchequer, where it is still preserved. Wharton. Lat. In Roman law. A form of plea or defense in an a...
NOMINATION
holds only in the name or for the benefit of another, whose name he discloses by the plea, in order that the plaintiff may bring his action against such other. See Mackeld. Rom. Law, § 297.
NOMINATIVUS PENDENS
Lat. A nominative case grammatically unconnected with the rest of the sentence in which it stands. The opening words in the ordinary form of a deed inter partes, “This indenture,” ete, down to “whereas,” though a...
NOMINE
Lat. By name; by the name of; under the name or designation of.
NOMOCANON
(1) A collection of canons and imperial laws relative or conformable thereto. The-first nomocanon was made by Johannes Scholasticus in 554. Photius, patriarch of Constantinople, in 888, compiled another nomocanon, or col...
NON
Lat. Not. The common particle of negation.
NON ACOREVIT INFRA SEX ANNOS
It did not accrue within six years. The name of a plea by which the defendant sets up the statute of limitations against a cause of action which Is barred after six years.
NON ASSUMPSIT
and holding of such certificate. At most its legal effect Is a stipulation against Nability from further assessment or taxation after the entire subscription of one hundred per cent. shall have been paid. Upton v. Tribil...
NON ASSUMPSIT INFRA SEX AN
NOS. He did not undertake within six years. The name of the plea of the statute of limitations, in the action of aseumpstt.
NON COMPOS MENTIS
Lat. Not sound of mind; insane. This fs a very general term, embracing all varieties of mental derangement. See INSANITY.
NON CONCESSIT
Lat. He did not grant. The name of a plea denying a grant, which could be made only by a atranger.
Non consentit qui errat. Bract
fol. 44. He who mistdkes does not consent.
NON CONSTAT
Lat. It does not appear; it is not clear or evident. A phrase used in general to state some conclusion as not necessarily following although it may appear on its face to follow.
NON DAMNIFICATUS
Lat. Not injured. This is a plea in an action of debt on an indemnity bond, or bond conditioned “to keep the plaintiff harmless and indemnifled,” etc. It is in the nature of a plea of performance, being used where th...
NON DEBEO MELIORIS
potes mentie: First, an idiot, or fool natural; second, he who was of good and sound mind and memory, but by the act of God has lost it; third, a lunatic, lunaticus qué gaudet lucidis intervallis, who sometimes is of go...
NON DEBET ACTORI LICERE
Non debet actori Mcere quod reo non permittitur. A plaintiff ought not to be allowed what is not permitted to a defendant. <A rule of the civil law. Dig. 50, 17, 41
NON DETINET
lIat. He does not detain. The name of the general issue in the action of detinue. 1 Tidd, Pr. 645; Berlin
NON DIMISIT. I
Lat. He did not demise. A plea resorted to where a plaintiff declared upon a demise without stating the indenture in an action of debt for rent. Also, a plea in bar, in replevin, to an avowry for arrears of rent, that th...
NON EST FACTUM
Lat. A plea by way of traverse, which occurs in debt on hond or other specialty, and also in covenant. It denies that the deed mentioned in the declaration is the defendant’s deed. Under this, the defendant may contend...
NON EST FAOTUM
point of law. Wharton; Haggart v. Morgan, 5 N. Y. 422, 55 Am. Dec. 350; Evans v. Southern Turnpike Co., 18 Ind. 101.
NON EST INVENTUS
Lat. He is not found.. The sheriff’s return to process requiring him to arrest the body of the de fendant, when the latter is not found within his jurisdiction. It is often abbreviated ‘‘n. e. 4,” or written, in ...
NON FEOIT
Lat. He did not make it. A plea in an action of assumpstt on a promissory note. 3 Man. & G. 446.
NON FEOIT VASTUM CONTRA PRO
HIBITIONEM. He did not commit waste
NON HZO0 IN FODERA VENI. I did
not agree to these terms.
NON IMPEDIVIT
Lat. He did not impede. The plea of the general issue in The Latin form of the law French “ne disturda pas.”
NON INFREGIT CONVENTIONEM
Lat. He did not break the contract. The name of a plea sometimes pleaded in the action of covenant, and intended as a general issue, but held to be a bad plea; there being, properly speaking, no general issue in that act...
NON INTROMITTANT CLAUSE
against the prohibition. A plea to an action founded on a writ of estrepement for waste.
NON INTROMITTANT OLAUSE. In
English Jaw. A clause of a charter of a municipal borough, ‘whereby the_borongh_ is
NON INTROMITTENDO
exempted from the jurisdiction of the justices of the peace for the county.
NON LIQUET
Lat. It is not clear. In the Roman courts, when any of the judges, after the hearing of a cause, were not satisfied that the case was made clear enough for them to pronounce a verdict, they were privileged to signify thi...
NON MEROHANDIZANDA VICTU
ALIA. An ancient writ addressed to justices of assize, to inquire whether the magistrates of a town sold victuals in gross or by retail during the time of their being in office, which was contrary to an obsolete statute;...
NON OBSTANTE
Lat. Notwithstanding. Words anciently used in public and private instruments, intended to preclude, in advance, any interpretation contrary to certain declared objects or purposes. Burrill.
NON OMITTAS
ed from transportation in the United States matiis, whether on account of the size of the package, the nature of its contents, its obscene character, or for other reasons. See
NON OMNE DAMNUM
the writ by reason of any liberty, because there are many liberties or districts in which the sheriff has no power to execute process unless he has special authority. 2 Steph.
NON PONENDIS IN ASSISIS ET
JURATIS. <A writ formerly granted for freeing and discharging persons from serving on assizes and juries. Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 165.
NON PROSEQUITUR
Lat. If, in the proceedings in an action at law, the plaintiff neglects to take any of those steps which he ought to take within the time prescribed by the practice of the court for that purpose, the defendant may enter ...
NON QUIETA MOVERE
Lat. Not to disturb what is settled. <A rule expressing the same principle as that of stare decisis, (q. v.)
NON SANZ MENTIS
Lat. Of un sound mind. Fleta, Hb. 6, « 40, § 1.
NON SEQUITUR
Lat. It does not follow.
NON SUBMISSIT
Lat. He did not submit. A plea to an action of debt, on a bond to perform an award, to the effect that the defendant did not submit to the arbitration.
NON SUI JURIS
Lat. Not his own master. The opposite of sui juris, (gc. v.)
NON SUM INFORMATUS
Lat. I am not informed; I have not been instructed. The name of a species of judgment by default, which is entered when the defendant’s attorney announces that he is not informed of any answer to be given by him; usual...
NON TENENT INSIMUL
Lat. In pleading. A plea to an action in partition, by which the defendant denies that he and the plaintiff are joint tenants of the estate in question.