Category: N

The whole natural day, or day and night, consisting, of twenty-four hours. Enc. Lond

The act of taking care of children, bringing them up, and educating them. Regina ?. Clarke, 7 El. & Bl. 193

Pertaining to marriage; con-stitnting marriage; used or done in mar-riage

Lat. In practice. The name of a writ (now abolished) which, ln the English law, lay for a sister co-heiress dispossessed by her coparcener of lands and tenements whereof their father, brother, or any common ancestor died seised of an estate in fee-simple. Fltzh. Nat. Brev. 197

Traffic at fairs and markets; any buying and selling

Lat

Lat. In the civil and old English law. A fair. In nundinis et mer-cdtis, in fairs and markets. Bract, fol. 56

To declare publicly and solemnly, – >

A will which depends merely upon oral evldence, having been declared or dictated by the testator in his last sickness before a sufficient number of witnesses, and afterwards reduced to wrlt-ing. Ex parte Thompson, 4 Bradf. Sur. (N. Y.) 154; Sykes v. Sykes, 2 Stew. (Ala.) 367, 20 Am, Dec. 40; Tally v. Butterworth, 10 […]

Lat. In the civil law. To name; to pronounce orally or in words without writing

Lat. In the civil law. A solemn declaration, usually ln prohlbition of a thing; a protest

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, i. e., with tbe same effect as if regularly done. Perkins v. Hay-ward, 132 Ind. 95, 31 N. E. 670; Secou v. Leroux, 1 N. M. 388

An acre of land. Spejinan.

The price of anything in money, as denariata ls the price of a thing by computation of pence, and Ubrata of pounds

Lat. In the dvil iaw. Money told or counted; money paid by tale. Inst 3, 24, 2; Bract fol. 35

L Lat In pleadiug. The name of a plea

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

Lat. In old Engllsh law. of no legal force. Fleta, lib. 2, c. 60, I 24

Lat. Among the property of no person

Lat. The son of no-body; a bastard

Nothing; no proceeding; an act or proceedlng in a canse whlch the op-poslte party may treat as though lt had not taken place, or whlch has absolutely no legal force or effect Salter v. Hilgen, 40 wis. 363; Jenness v. Lapeer County Circuit Judge, 42 Mich. 469, 4 N. W. 220; Johnson v. Hines, 61 […]

NA. Lat No goods. The name of the return made by the sheriff to a writ of execution, when he has not found any goods of the defendant within his jurisdiction on wbich he could levy, woodward v. Harbin, 1 Ala. 108; Reed v. Lowe, 163 Mo. 519, 63 S. W. 687, 85 Am. SL […]

Anything that unlawfully worketh hurt, inconvenience, or damage. 3 Bl. Comm. 216

(New Com-^llation.) The title of a code of Spanish law, promulgated ln the year 1567. Schm. fclvll Law, Introd. 79-81

Lat A naked pact; a bare agreement; a promise or un-dertaking made without any consideration for it Justice v. Lang, 42 N. T. 493, 1 Am. Rep. 676; wardell v. williams, 62 Mich. 50, 28 N. W. 800, 4 Am. St. Rep. 814

Naked. This word is applied metaphorically to a variety of subjects to indicate that they are lacking in some essen-tlal legal requisite

Lat Bare or mere possession

Lat. Mere suf-ferance

Lat. To collect nuts. This was formerly one’ at the works

Lat In the civU law. Marriageable; one who is of a proper age to be married

Hurtful; offensive; offensive to the smell. Rex v. whlte, 1 Burrows, 337. The word “noxious” includes the complex Idea both of insalubrity and offenslveness. Id

LaL In the civll law. An offense committed or damage done by a slave. Iust. 4, 8, 1

An action for dam-age done by slaves or Irrational animals

Lat. In the civil law. A new work. See Novi opkbis Nunciatio

In old Scotch law. (We give anew.) The name given to a charter, or clause ln a charter, granting a renewal of a right Bell

Lat. Novelty; newness; a new thing

(Lat-est Compilation.) The title of a collection of

In Saxon law. A pecuniary satisfaction for an injury, amounting to nine times the value of the thing for whlch it was paid. Spelman

Lat De

Know all men by these presents. Formal words used at the commencement of deeds of release ln the Latin forms

The tltle given in English to the New Constitutions (Novella Constitu-tioncs) ot Justinian and hls successors, now forming a part of the Corpus Juris Civilis. See Novelise

The ordinances of the Emperor Leo, which were made from

See Assise of Novel Disseisin

See New Assignment

In the clvil law. Land that rested a year after the first plowing. Dig. 50, 16, 30, 2

Land newly plowed and con-verted into tillage, and which has not been tilled before within the memory of man; also fallow land

The name of an im-positipn or duty. See Antiqua Custuma

In Scotch law. open; no-. torious. A notour bankrupt is a debtor who, being under diligence by horning and caption of his creditor, retires to sanctuary or absconds or defends by force, and is afterwards fonnd Insolvent by the court of session. Bell

In the law of evidence, matters deemed notorious do not require to be proved. There does not seem to be any recognized rule as to what matters are deem-ed notorious. Cases have occurred in which the state of society or public feeling bas been treated as notorious; e. g., during times of sedition. Best, Ev. […]

The state of being notorious or universally well known