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  • NUDA PATIENTIA
    Lat- Mere sufferance.
  • NUDA POSSESSIO
    Lat. Bare or mere possession. Nuda ratio ot nnda paotio non ligant. aliqnem debitor em. Naked reason and. naked promise do not bind , any debtor. Fleta, L 2, c 60, | 25.
  • NUDE
    Naked. This word is, applied metaphorically to a variety of subjects to indicate that they are lacking in some essential LEGAL requisite. -Nude oontract. One made without any consideration; upon which no action will lie, hi conformity with the maxim "em nudo pacto non oritur aetio." 2 Bl. Comm. 445.-Nude More...
  • NUDUM PACTUM
    Lat A naked pact; a bare agreement; a promise or undertaking made without any consideration for it Justice v. Lang, 42 N. T. 493, 1 Am. Rep. 576; Wardell v. Williams, 62 Mich. 50, 28 N. W. 800, 4 Am. St. Rep. 814. Nudnm pactum est nbi nnlla snbest eansa More...
  • NUEVA RECOPILACION
    (New Compilation.) The title of a code of Spanish law, promulgated in the year 1567. Schm. Civil Law,' Introd. 79-81.
  • NUGATORY
    Futile; ineffectual; invalid; destitute of constraining force or vitality. A legislative act may be "nugatory" because unconstitutional.
  • NULL
    Naught; of no validity or effect. Usually coupled with the word "void;" as oonull and void." Forrester v. Boston, etcL, Min. Co., 29 Mont 397, 74 Pac. 1088; Hume v. Eagon, 73 Mo. App. 276
  • NULLIUS IN BONIS
    Lat. Among the property of no person.
  • NULLIUS JURIS
    Lat. In old English law. Of no legal force. Fleta, lib. 2, c. 60, I 24.
  • NULLUM ARBITRIUM
    L. Lat. No award. The name of a plea in an action on an arbitration bond, for not fulfilling the award, by which the defendant traverses the allegation that there was an award made. Nullum orimen majus est inobedien-tin. No crime is greater than disobedience. Jenk. Cent p. 77, case More...
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