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  • NONAGIUM, OR NONAGE
    A ninth part of movables which was paid to the clergy on the death of persons in their parish, and claimed on pretense of being distributed to pious uses. Blount
  • NONES
    In the Roman calendar. The fifth and, in March, May, July, and October, the seventh day of the month. So called because, counting Inclusively, they were nine days from the ides. Adams, Rom. Ant 355, 357.
  • NONFEASANCE
    The neglect or failure of a person to do some act which he ought to do. The term is not generally used to denote a breach of contract, but rather the failure to perform a duty towards the public whereby some individual sustains special damage, as where a sheriff falls More...
  • NONNA
    In old ecclesiastical law. A nun. Nonnus, a monk. Spelman.
  • NONSENSE
    Unintelligible matter in a written agreement or will.
  • NOOK OF LAND
    In English law. Twelve acres and a half.
  • NORMAL
    Opposed to exceptional; that state wherein any body most exactly comports in all its parts with the abstract idea thereof, and is most exactly fitted to perform Its proper functions, is entitled ''normal." -Normal law. A term employed by modern writers on jurisprudence to denote the law as it affects More...
  • NONSUIT
    Not following up the cause; failure on the part of a plaintiff to continue the prosecution of his suit An abandonment or renunciation of his suit, by a plaintiff, either by omitting to take the next necessary steps, or voluntarily relinquishing the action, or pursuant to an order of the More...
  • NORMAN FRENCH
    The tongue in which several formal proceedings of state In England are still carried on. The language, having remained the same since the date of the Conquest, at which it was introduced into England, is very different from the French of this day, retaining all the peculiarities which at that More...
  • NORROY
    In English law. The title of the third of the three kings-at-arms, or provincial heralds.
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