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  • NORTHAMPTON TABLES
    Longevity and annuity tables compiled from bills of mortality kept in All Saints parish, England, in 1735-1780. Nosoitar a soolis. It is known from Its associates. 1 Vent 225. The meaning of a word is or may be known from the accompanying words. 3 Term R. 87; Broom, Max. 588. More...
  • NOSOCOMI
    In the civil law. Persons who have the management and care of hospitals for paupers.
  • NOT FOUND
    These words, indorsed on a bill of indictment by a grand jury, have the same effect as the Indorsement "Not a true bill" or "Ignoramus".
  • NOT GUILTY
    A plea of the general issue in the actions of trespass and case and in criminal prosecutions. The form of the verdict in criminal cases, where the jury acquit the prisoner. 4 Bl. Comm. 361.
  • NOT GUILTY BY STATUTE
    In English practice. A plea of the general issue by a defendant in a civil * action, when he intends to give special matter in evidence by virtue of some act or acts of parliament, in which case he must add the reference to such act or acts, and state More...
  • NOT POSSESSED
    A special traverse used in an action of trover, alleging that defendant was not possessed, at the time of action brought, of the chattels alleged to have been converted by him.
  • NOT PROVEN
    A verdict In a Scotch criminal trial, to the effect that the guilt of the accused Is not made out, though his Innocence is not clear.
  • NOT SATISFIED
    A return sometimes made by sheriffs or constables to a writ of execution; but it Is not a technical formula, and is condemned by the courts as ambiguous and insufficient See Martin v. Martin, 50 N. C. 346; Langford v. Few, 146 Mo. 142, 47 S. W. 927, 69 Am. More...
  • NOT TRANSFERABLE
    These words, when written across the face of a negotiable instrument operate to destroy Its negotiability. Purr v. State, 59 Ala. 24.
  • NOTA
    Lat. In the civil law. A mark or brand put upon a person by the law. Mackeld. Rom. Law, 135.
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