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  • NUPER OBIIT
    Lat. In practice. The name of a writ (now abolished) which, in the English law, lay for a sister co-heiress dispossessed by her coparcener of lands and tenements whereof their father, brother, or any common ancestor died seised of an estate in fee-simple. Fitzh. Nat Brev. 197.
  • NUPTIAE SECUNDAE
    Lat. A second marriage. In the canon law, this term included any marriage subsequent to the first.
  • NUPTIAL
    Pertaining to marriage; constituting marriage; used or done in marriage. Nuptias non eoncubitus sod consensus faoit. Go. Litt. 38. Not cohabitation but consent makes the marriage.
  • NURTURE
    The act of taking care of children, bringing them up, and educating them. Regina v. Clarke, 7 El. A Bl. 103.
  • NURUS
    Lat In the civil law. A son's wife; a daughter-in-law. Calvin.
  • NYCTHEMERON
    The whole natural day, or day and night, consisting, of twenty-four hours. Enc. Lond.
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