Terms beginning with "N" (315 total)

NULLUM ARBITRIUM

L. Lat. No award. The name of a plea in an action on an arbitration bond, for not fulfilling the award, by which the defendant traverses the allegation that there was an award made.

NUNO PRO TUNG

Lat. Now for then. A phrase applied to acts allowed to be done after the time when they should be done, with a retroactive effect, «4. c., with the same effect as if regularly done. Perkins v. Hayward, 182 Ind. 95, 81 N...

NUPER OBIIT

NUNOCUPATIVE WILL. A will which depends merely upon oral evidence, having been declared or dictated by the testator in his last sickness before a sufficient number of witnesses, and afterwards reduced to writing. Ex part...

NW

L. An abbreviation of “non liquet,” (which see.) 8. An abbreviation for “New Series ;” also for “New Style.”