NOT POSSESSED. A plea sometimes used in actions of trover, when the defendant was not possessed of the goods at the commencement of the action. 3 Mann...
NOSOCOMI, civil law. Persons who have the management and care of hospitals for paupers. Clef Lois Rom. mot Administrateurs.NOT FOUND. These words are ...
NORTH CAROLINA. The name of one of the original states of the United States of America. The territory which now forms this state was included in the g...
NONSENSE, construction. That which in a written agreement or will is unintelligible.2. It is a rule of law that an instrument shall be so construed th...
NON RESIDENCE, eccles. law. The absence of spiritual persons from their benefices.NON SUBMISSIT. The name of a plea to an action of debt or a bond to ...
NON JOINDER, pleading, practice. The omission of some one of the persons who ought to have been made a plaintiff or defendant along with others is cal...
NON EST INVENTUS, practice. The sheriff's return to a writ requiring him to ,arrest the person of the defendant, which signifies that he is not to...
NON DEMISIT, pleading. A plea proper to be pleaded to an action of debt for rent, when the plaintiff declares on a parol lease. Gilb. Debt, 436, 438; ...
NON CLAIM. An omission or neglect by one entitled to make a demand within the time limited by law; as, when a continual claim ought to be made, a negl...
NON AGE. By this term is understood that period of life from the birth till the arrival of twenty-one years. In another sense it means under the prope...