Category: N

Appertaining to the navy, (q. v

Pertaining to ships or to the art of navigation or the business of car-riage by sea

Lat In the civil and maritlme law. A sailor; one who works a ship. Calvin

In the civil law. The freight or fare paid for the transportation of cargo or passengers over the sea in a vessel. This is a Latinized form of a Greek word

The freight of passengers-in a ship. Johnson; webster

Lat. Shipwreck

Lat. In the civil law. The master or owner of a merchant vessel. Calvin

Lat. Born, as distinguished from nasciturus, about to be born. Ante natus, one born before a particular person or event, e. g.. before tbe death of his father, before a political revolution, etc. Post natus, one born after a particular person or event

To confer citizeushlp upou an alien; to make a foreigner the same, ln respect to rights and privileges, as if he were a native citizen or subject

The act of adopt-ing au alien into a nation, and clothing him with all the rights possessed by a natural-born citizen. Boyd v. Nebraska, 143 U. S. 135, 12 Sup. Ct 375, 36 L. Ed. 103

In Spanish law. The state, of a natural-born subject white, New Recop. b. 1, tit. 5, c. 2

A rule of couduct arising out of the natural relations of human beings, established by the Creator, tfnd exist-ing prior to any posltlve precept webster. The foundation of thls law is placed by the best writers in the will of God, discovered by right reason, and aided by divine revela-tion; and its principles, when applicable, […]

The juristic meanlng of this term does not differ from the vernacular, except ln the cases where lt ls used ln op

The name of an

A natural-born subject or citl-zen; a denizen by blrth; one who owes his domicile or citizenship to the fact of his birth within the country referred to. The term may also include one born abroad, if his parents were then citizens of the country, and not permanently residing in foreign parts. See U. S. v. […]

A people, or aggregation of men, existing in the form of an organized jural society, inhabiting a distinct portion of the earth, speaking the same language, using the same customs, possessing historic contin-uity, and distinguished from other like groups by their racial origin* and characteristics, and generally, but not necessarily, living under the same government […]

In old records. A native place. Coweli

Born and to be born. All heirs, near and remote

The state and condition of a man acquired by birth

Those seas which run between two coasts not far apart. The term is sometimes applied to the English channel, wharton

A countor; a pleader who draws nam. Serviens narrator, a serjeant at law. Fleta, 1. 2, c. 37

In Scotch conveyancing. That part of a deed which describes the gran-tor, and person in whose favor the deed Is granted, and states the cause (consideration) of granting. BelL

A celebrated law for the security of Protestants, made by Henry IV. of France, and revoked by Louis XIV., october 2, 1685

L. Lat In old English law. A taking; a dlstress. Spelman. Things, goods, or animals taken hy way of distress. Simplex namium, a simple taking or pledge. Bract fol. 205b

The designation of an individual person, or of a firm or corporation. In law a man cannot have more than one Christian name. Rex v. Newman, 1 Ld. Raym. 562. As to the history of Christian names and surnames and their use and relative importance ln law, see In re Snook, 2 Hilt (N. Y.) […]

L. Lat. In old English and Scotch law. A distraining or taking of a distress; an impounding. Spelman

L. Lat In old records. To take, seize, or distrain

A lineal measure of two inches and a quarter

L. Fr. A villein; a born slave; a bondwoman

. originally the governor of a province nnder the Mogul government of Hln-dostan, whence it became a mere title of any man of high rank, upon whom it was con-ferred without any office being attached to it. wils. Indian Gloss