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  • NEATNESS
    In pleading. The statement in apt and appropriate words of all the necessary facts, and no more. Lawes, PI. 62. Neo curia deneeret ia justitia exhi-beuda. Nor should the court be deficient in showing justice. 4 Inst 63. Nee tempus nee locus oeourrit regi. Jenk. Cent 190. Neither time nor More...
  • NECATION
    The act of killing.
  • NECESSARIES
    Things indispensable, or things proper and useful, for the sustenance of human life. This is a relative term, and its meaning will contract or expand according to the situation and social condition of the person referred to. Megraw v. Woods, 93 Mo. App. 647, 67 S. W. 709; Warner v. More...
  • NECESSARIUS
    Lat Necessary; unavoidable; indispensable; not admitting of " choice or the action of the will; needful.
  • NECESSITUDO
    Lat. In the civil law. An obligation; a close connection; relationship by blood. Calvin.
  • NECK-VERSE
    The Latin sentence, "Miserere mei, Deus," was so called, because the reading of it was made a test for those who claimed benefit of clergy.
  • NECESSARY
    As used in jurisprudence, the word "necessary" does not always Import an absolute physical necessity, so strong that one thing, to wjjieh another may be termed "necessary," cannot exist without that other. It frequently imports no more than that one thing is convenient or useful or essential to another. To More...
  • NECESSITAS
    Lat. Necessity; a force, power, or influence which compels one to act against his will. Calvin. -Necessitas culpabilis. Culpable necessity; unfortunate necessity; necessity which, while it excuses the act done under its compulsion, does not leave the doer entirely free from blame. The necessity which compels a man to kill More...
  • NECESSITY
    Controlling force; irresistible compulsion; a power or impulse so great that it admits no choice of conduct. When it is said that an act is done "under necessity," It may be. in law, either of three kinds of necessity: (1) The necessity of preserving one's own life, which will excuse More...
  • NECROPHILISM
    See INSANITY.
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