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  • NOTIFY
    In legal proceedings, and in respect to public matters, this word is generally, if not universally, used as importing a notice given by some person, whose duty it was to give it, in some manner prescribed, and to some person entitled to receive It, or be notified. Appeal of Potwine, More...
  • NOTING
    As soon as a notary has made presentment and demand of a bill of exchange, or at some seasonable hour of the same day, he makes a minute on the bill, or on a ticket attached thereto, or in his book of registry, consisting of his initials, the month, day, More...
  • NOTIO
    Lat. In the civil law. Tbe power of hearing and trying a matter of fact; the power pr authority of a judex; the power of hearing causes and of pronouncing sentence, without any degree of Jurisdiction. Calvin;
  • NOTITIA
    Lat. Knowledge; information; Intelligence; notice. Notltla dioitnr a noseendo; et notitia non debet elaadieare. Notice is named from a knowledge being had; and notice ought not to halt, [c, be imperfect.] 6 Coke, 29.
  • NOTORIAL
    The Scotch form of "notarial," fa. v.) Bell.
  • NOTORIETY
    The state of being notorious or universally well known. -Proof by notoriety. In Scotch law, dispensing with positive testimony as to matters of common knowledge or general notoriety, the same as the "judicial notice" of English and American law. See NOTICE.
  • NOTORIOUS
    In the law of evidence, matters deemed notorious do not require to be proved. There does not seem to be any recognized rule as to what matters are deemed notorious. Cases have occurred In . which the state of society or public feeling has been treated as notorious; e. p., More...
  • NOTOUR
    In Scotch law. Open; notorious. A notour bankrupt is a debtor who, being under diligence by horning and caption of his creditor, retires to sanctuary or absconds or defends by force, arid is afterwards found insolvent by the court of session. Bell. Nova eonstitntio futuris formam im-ponere debet non prssteritis. More...
  • NOVA OUSTUMA
    The name of an im-positipn or duty. See ANTIQUA CUSTUMA.
  • NOVA STATUTA
    o New statutes. An appellation sometimes given to the statutes which have been passed since the beginning of the reign of Edward III; 1 Steph. Comm. 68.
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