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  • NON-AGE
    Lack of requisite legal age. The condition of a person who is under twenty-one years of age,- in some cases, and under fourteen or twelve in others; minority. Non alio modo puniatnr aliqnis qnam secundum quod se babet condemn atio. & Inst 217. A person may not be punished differently More...
  • NON-APPARENT EASEMENT
    A non-continuous or discontinuous easement Fetters v. Humphreys, 18 N. J. Eq. 262. See EASEMENT.
  • NON-APPEARANCE
    A failure of appearance; the omission of the defendant to" appear within the time limited.
  • NON-ASSESSABLE
    This word, placed upon a certificate of stock, does not cancel or impair the obligation to pay the amount due upon the shares created by the acceptance and holding of such certificate. At most its legal effect is a stipulation against liability from further assessment or taxation after the entire More...
  • NON ASSUMPSIT
    The general issue in the action of assumpsit; being a plea by which the defendant avers that "he did not undertake" or promise as alleged.
  • NON ASSUMPSIT INFRA SEX ANNOS
    He did not undertake within six years. The name of the plea of the statute of limitations, in the action of assumpsit. Non andltur perire volons. He who Is desirous to perish is not heard. Best, Ev. 423, | 385. He who confesses himself guilty of a crime, with the More...
  • NON-BAILABLE
    Not admitting of bail; not requiring bail.
  • NON BIS IN IDEM
    Not twice for the samethat is, a man shall not be twice tried for the same crime. This maxim of the civil law (Code, 9, 2, 9, 11) expresses the same principle as the familiar rule of our law that a man shall not be twice "put in jeopardy" for More...
  • NON CEPIT
    He did not take. The general .issue in replevin, where the action is for the wrongful taking of the property; putting in Issue not only the taking, but the place In which the taking is stated to have been made. Steph. PI. 157, 167.
  • NON-CLAIM
    Tbe omission or neglect of him who ought to claim his right within the time limited by law; as within a.year and a day where a continual claim was required, or within five years after a fine had been levied. Termes de la I^ey. -Covenant of non-claim. See COVENANT.
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