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  • NON-RESIDENT
    One who Is not a dweller within some jurisdiction in question; not an inhabitant of the state of the forum. Gardner v. Meeker, 169 111. 40, 48 N. E. 307; oNagel v. Loomis, 33 Neb. 490, 50 N. W. 441; Morgan v. Nunes, 54 Miss. 310. For the distinction between More...
  • NON-RESIDENTIO FRO CLERICO REGIS
    A writ, addressed to a bishop, charging him not to molest a clerk employed in the royal service, by reason of his non-residence; in which case he is to be discharged. Reg. Orig. 58. Non respondebit minor nisi in eansa dotis, et boo pro favor? doti. 4 Coke, 71. A More...
  • NON SANAE MENTIS
    Lat Of unsound mind. Fleta, lib. 6, C. 40, 1.
  • NON-SANE
    As "sane," when applied to the mind, means whole, sound, in a healthful state, "non-sane" must mean not whole, not sound, not in a healthful state; that is, broken, Impaired, shattered, Infirm, weak, diseased, unable, either from nature or accident, to perform the rational functions common to man upon the More...
  • NON SEQUITUR
    Lat It does not follow. Non solont qnss abundant vitiare serlpturas. Superfluities [things, which abound] do not usually vitiate writings Dig. 50, 17, 94. Non solum quid licet, sed quid est conveniens, est oonsidcrandum; quia nihil quod est inoonveniens est lioitum. Not only what is lawful, but what is proper More...
  • NON SOLVENDO PECUNIAM AD QUAM CLERICUS MULCTATUR PRO NON-RESIDENTIA
    A writ prohibiting an ordinary to take a pecuniary mulct imposed on a clerk of the sovereign for non-residence. Reg. Writ. 59.
  • NON SUBMISSIT
    Lat. He did not submit A plea to an action of debt on a bond to perform an award, to the effect that the defendant did not submit to the arbitration.
  • NON SUI JURIS
    Lat Not his own master. The opposite of sui juris, (q. v.)
  • NON SUM INFORMATUS
    Lat I am not informed; I have not been Instructed. The name of a species of judgment by default, which is entered when the defendant's attorney announces that he is not Informed of any answer to be given by him; usually in pursuance of a previous arrangement between the parties.
  • NON-SUMMONS, WAGER OF LAW OF.
    The mode in which a tenant or defendant in a real action pleaded, when the summons which followed the original was not served within the proper time. Nom temere credere est nervus sapiential. 5 Coke, 114. Not to believe rashly is the nerve of wisdom.
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