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  • NON-COMBATANT
    A person connected with an army or navy, but for purposes other than fighting; such as the surgeons and chaplains. Also a neutral.
  • NON-COMMISSIONED
    A non-commissioned officer of the army or militia is a subordinate officer who holds his rank, not by commission from the executive authority of the state or nation, but by appointment by a superior officer.
  • NON COMPOS MENTIS
    Lat. Not sound of mind; Insane. This is a very general term, embracing all varieties of mental derangement See INSANITY. Coke has enumerated four different classes of persons who are deemed In law to be non compotes mentis: First, an idiot, or fool natural; second, he who was of good More...
  • NON CONCESSIT
    Lat. He did not grant The name of a plea denying a grant, which could be made only by a stranger.
  • NON-CONFORMIST
    In English law. One who refuses to comply with others; one who refuses to join in the established forms of worship. Non-conformists are of two sorts: (1) Such as absent themselves from divine worship in the Established Church through total irre-ligion, and attend the service of no other persuasion; (2) More...
  • NON CONSTAT
    Lat. It does not appear; it is not clear or evident A phrase used in general to state some conclusion as not necessarily following although it may appear on its face to follow.
  • NON-CONTINUOUS EASEMENT
    A non-apparent or discontinuous easement. Fetters v. Humphreys, 18 N. J. Eq. 262. See EASEMENT.
  • NON CULPABILIS
    Lat. In pleading. Not guilty. It is usually abbreviated "non cul".
  • NON DECIMANDO
    See DE NON DECIMANDO Non deoipitur qui scit se deoipi. 5 Coke, 60. He is not deceived who knows himself to be deceived.
  • NON DEDIT
    Lat. In pleading. He did not grant. The general issue in formedon.
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