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  • NOMINE
    Lat By name; by the name of; under the name or designation of.
  • NOMINE PCENAE
    S. In the name of a penalty. In the civil law, a legacy was said to be left nomine poena where it was left for the purpose of coercing the heir to do or not to do something. Inst 2, 20, 36. The term has also been applied, in English More...
  • NOMINEE
    One who has been nominated or proposed for an office.
  • NOMOCANON
    (1) A collection of canons and imperial laws relative or conformable thereto. The-flrst nomocanon was made by Johannes Scholastlcus in 554. Photius, patriarch of Constantinople, in 883, compiled another nomocanon. or collation of the civil laws with the canons; this is the most celebrated. Balsamon wrote a commentary upon it More...
  • NOMOGRAPHER
    One who writes on the subject of laws.
  • NOMOGRAPHY
    A treatise or description of laws.
  • NOMOTHETA
    A lawgiver; such as Solon and Lycurgus among the Greeks, and Csasar, Pompey, and Sylla among the Romans. Calvin.
  • NON-ACCEPTANCE
    The refusal to accept anything.
  • NON ACCEPTAVIT
    In pleading. Tbe name of a plea to an action of assumpsit brought against the drawee of a bill of exchange by which he denies that he accepted the same.
  • NON-ACCESS
    In legal parlance, this term denotes the absence of opportunities for sexual Intercourse between husband and wife; or the absence of such intercourse. Non aeoipi debent verba in demons tra-tionem falsam, quae eompetnnt in limita-tionem veram. Words ought not to be taken to import a false demonstration which may have More...
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