NEW HAMPSHIRE. The name of one of the original states of the United States of America. During its provincial state, New Hampshire was governed, down t...
NEW. Something not known before.2. To be patented, an invention must be new. When an invention has been described in a printed book which has been pub...
NEIF, old Eng. law. A woman who was born a villain, or a bond woman.NEMINE CONTRADICENTE, legislation. These words, usually abbreviated nem. con., are...
NEGOTIATION, contracts The deliberation which takes place between the parties touching a proposed agreement.2. That which transpires in the negotiatio...
NEGLIGENT ESCAPE. The omission to take such a care of a prisoner as a gaoler is bound to take, and in consequence of it, the prisoner departs from his...
NEGATIVE PREGNANT, pleading. Such form of negative expression, in pleading, as may imply or carry within it an affirmative.2. This is faulty, because ...
NEGATION. Denial. Two negations are construed to mean one affirmation. Dig. 50, 16, 137.NEGATIVE. This word has several significations. 1. It is used ...
NECESSARY AND PROPER. The Constitution of the United States, art. 1, s. 8, vests in congress the power " to make all laws, which shall be necessa...
NEAT or NET, contracts. The exact weight of an article, without the bag, box, keg, or other thing in which it may be enveloped.NEATNESS, pleading. The...
NE LUMINIBUS OFFICIATOR, civil law. The name of a servitude which restrains the owner of a house from making such erections as obstruct the light of t...