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  • NE GIST PAS EN BOUCHE
    L. Fr. It does not lie in the mouth. A common phrase in the old books. Yearb. M. 3 Edw. II. 60.
  • NE INJUSTE VEXES
    Lat. In old English practice, A prohibitory writ, commanding a lord not'to demand from the tenant more services than were justly due by the tenure under which his ancestors held.
  • NE LUMINIBUS OFFICIATUR
    Lat In the civil law. The name of a servitude which restrains the owner of a house from making such erections as obstruct the light of the adjoining house. Dig. 8, 4, 15, 17.
  • NE QUID IN LOCO PUBLICO VELITINERE FIAT
    Lat. That nothing shall be done (put or erected) in a public place or way. The title of an interdict in the Roman law. Dig. 43, 8.
  • NE RECIPIATUR
    Lat. That It be not received. A caveat or warning given to a law officer, by a party in a cause, not to receive the next proceedings of his opponent 1 Sell. Pr. 8.
  • NE RECTOR PROSTERNET ARBORES
    L. Lat The statute 35 Edw. I. Section 2, prohibiting rectors, i. e.t parsons, from cutting down the trees in church-yards. In Rutland v. Green, 1 Keb. 557, it was extended to prohibit them from opening new mines and working the minerals therein. Brown.
  • NE RELESSA PAS.
    L. Fr. Did not release. Where the defendant had pleaded a release, this was the proper replication by way of traverse.
  • NE UNQUES ACCOUPLE
    L. Fr. Never married. More fully, ne unques accouple en loiall matrimonie, never joined in lawful marriage. The name of a plea In the action of dower undo nihil habet. by which the tenant denied that the dowress was ever lawfully married to the decedent.
  • NE UNQUES EXECUTOR
    L. Fr. Never executor. The name of a plea by which the defendant denies that he is an executor, as he is alleged to be; or that the plaintiff is an executor, as he claims to be.
  • NE UNQUES SEISE QUE DOWER
    L. Fr. (Never seised of a dowable estate.) In pleading. The general issue in the action of dower undo nil habet, by which the tenant denies that the demandant's husband was ever seised of an estate of which dower might be had. Rose. Real Act. 219, 220.
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