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  • NON HAEC IN FCEDERA VENI
    I did not agree to these terms. Non Impedit clausula derogatoria quo minus ad eadem potestate res dissol* vantnr a qua oonstitnuntur. A derogatory clause does not Impede things from being dissolved by the same power by which they are created. Broom, Max. 27.
  • NON IMPEDIVIT
    Lat He did not Impede. The plea of the general issue in 'quare impedit The Latin form of the law French "ne disturba pas"
  • NON IMPLACITANDO ALIQUEM DE LIBERO TENEMENTO SINE BREVI
    A writ to prohibit bailiffs, etc., from distraining or impleading any man touching his freehold without the king's writ Reg. Orig. 171. Non in legendo sed in intelligendo legis consistunt. The laws consist not in being read, but in being understood. 8 Coke. 167a.
  • NON INFREGIT CONVENTIONEM
    Let He did not break the contract The name of a plea sometimes pleaded In the action of covenant, and' intended as a general issue, but held to be a bad plea; there being, properly speaking, no general issue in that action. 1 Tidd, Pr. 356.
  • NON-INTERCOURSE
    1. The refusal of one state or nation to have commercial dealings with another; similar to an embargo, (q. v.) 2. The absence of access, communication, or sexual relations between husband and wife.
  • NON INTERFUI
    I was not present A reporter's note. T. Jones, 10.
  • NON-INTERVENTION WILL
    A term sometimes applied to a will which authorizes the executor to settle and distribute the estate without the intervention of the court and without giving bond. In re Macdonald's Estate, 29 Wash. 422, 60 Pac U1L
  • NON
    Lat Not. the common particle of negation.
  • NON-ABILITY
    Want of ability to do an act in law, as to sue. A plea founded upon such cause. Cowell.
  • NON INTROMITTANT CLAUSE
    In English law. A clause of a charter of a municipal borough, whereby the borough Is exempted from the jurisdiction ot the justices of the peace for the county.
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