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  • NON INTROMITTENDO, QUANDO BREVE PRAECIPE IN CAPITE SUB-DOLE IMPETRATUR
    A writ addressed to the justices of the bench, or in eyre, commanding them not to give one who, under color of entitling the king to land, etc., as holding of him in capite, had deceitfully obtained the writ called "praecipe in capite," any benefit thereof, but to put him More...
  • NON-ISSUABLE PLEAS
    Those upon which a decision would not determine the action upon the merits, as a plea In abatement 1 Chit Archb. Pr. (12th Ed.) 249.
  • NON-JOINDER
    See JOINDER
  • NON JURIDICUS
    Not judicial; not legal. Dies non juridicus Is a day on which legal proceedings cannot be had.
  • NON-JURORS
    In English law. Persons who refuse to take the oaths, required by law, to support the government Non Jns on regnla, sod regula en jnre. The law does not arise from the rule (or maxim,) but the rule from the law. Tray. Lat Max. 384. Non Jns, sed seisina, faoit More...
  • NON-LEVIABLE
    Not subject to be levied upon. Non-leviable assets are assets upon which an execution cannot be levied. Farmers' F. Ins. Co. v. Conrad, 102 Wis. 387, 78 N. W. 582. Non licet qnod dispendio lioet. That which may be [done only] at a loss is not allowed [to be done.] More...
  • NON LIQUET
    Lat It is not clear. In the Roman courts, when any of the judges, after the hearing of a cause, were not satisfied that the case was made clear enough for them to pronounce a verdict, they were privileged to signify this opinion by casting a ballot inscribed with the More...
  • NON-MAILABLE
    A term applied to all letters and parcels which are by law excluded from transportation in the United States malls, whether on account of the size of the package, the nature of its contents, its obscene character, or for other reasons. See U. S. v. Nathan (D. C.) 61 Fed. More...
  • NON MERCHANDIZANDA VICTUALIA
    An ancient writ addressed to justices of assize, to inquire whether the magistrates of a town sold victuals In gross or by retail during the time of their being in office, which was contrary to an obsolete statute; and to punish them if they did. Reg. Orig. 184.
  • NON MOLESTANDO
    A writ that lay for a person who was molested contrary to the king's protection granted to him. Reg. Orig. 184. Non nasei, et natnm ntori, paria snnt. Not to be born, and to be dead-born, are the same.
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