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NAIL, A measure of length, equal to two inches and a ...
NAKED This word is used in a metaphorical sense to denote ...
NAME . One or more words used to distinguish a particular individual, ...
NAMES OF SHIPS The act of congress of December 31, 1792, concerning the registering ...
NAMIUM An old word which signifies the taking or distraining another person's ...
NARR, pleading. An abbreviation of the word narratio; a declaration in the ...
NARRATOR A pleader who draws narrs serviens narrator, a sergeant at law. ...
NARROW SEAS, English law. Those seas which adjoin the coast of England. Bac. ...
NATALE The state of condition of a man acquired by birth. ...
NATIONAL or PUBLIC DOMAIN All the property which belongs to the state is comprehended under ...
NATIONALITY The state of a person in relation to the nation ...
NATIONS Nations or states are independent bodies politic; societies of men united ...
NATIVES . All persons born within the jurisdiction of the United States, ...
NATURAL AFFECTION The affection which a husband, a father, a brother, or other ...
NATURAL CHILDREN In the phraseology of the English or American law, natural children ...
NATURAL DAY . That space of time included between the rising and the ...
NATURAL EQUITY That which is founded in natural justice, in honesty and right, ...
NATURAL FOOL . An idiot; one born without the reasoning powers, or a ...
NATURAL FRUITS The natural production of trees, bushes, and other plants, for the ...
NATURAL OBLIGATION, Civil law. One which in honor and conscience binds the person ...
NATURAL PRESUMPTIONS, evidence. Presumptions of fact; those which depend upon their own form ...
NATURALIZATION The act by which an alien is made a citizen ...
NATURALIZED CITIZEN One who, being born an alien, has lawfully become a citizen ...
NAUFRAGE French mar. law. When, by the violent agitation of the waves, ...
NAUTAE Strictly speaking, only carriers by water are comprehended under this word. ...
NAVAL OFFICER The name of an officer of the United States, whose duties ...
NAVICULARIS, civil law. He who had the management and care of ...
NAVIGABLE Capable of being navigated. 2. In law, the ...
NAVIGATION The act of traversing the sea, rivers or lakes, in ships ...
NAVY The whole shippings taken collectively, belonging to the government of an ...
NE BAILA PAS He did not deliver. This is a plea in detinue, ...
NE DISTURBA PAS, pleading. The general issue in quare impedit. Hob. 162 Vide Rast, ...
NE DONA PAS, or NON DEDIT, pleading. The general issue in formedon; and is in the following ...
NE EXEAT REPUBLICA, practice. The name of a writ issued by a court of ...
NE LUMINIBUS OFFICIATOR, civil law. The name of a servitude which restrains the owner ...
NE RECIPIATUR That it be not received. A caveat or words of caution ...
NE RELESSA PAS . The name of a replication to a plea, of ...
NE UNJUSTE VEXES, o ld Engl. law. The name of a writ which issued to ...
NE UNQUES ACCOUPLE, pleading. A plea by which the party denies that he ever ...
NE UNQUES EXECUTOR, pleading. A plea by which the party who uses it denies ...
NE UNQUES SEISIE QUIZ DOWER, pleading. A plea by which a defendant denies the right of ...
NE UNQUES SON RECEIVER, pleading. The name of a plea in an action of account ...
NE VARIETUR These words, which literally signify that it be not varied or ...
NEAT or NET, contracts. The exact weight of an article, without the bag, box, ...
NEATNESS, pleading. The statement, in apt and appropriate words, of all the ...
NECESSARIES Such things as are proper and requisite for tlie sustenance of ...
NECESSARY AND PROPER The Constitution of the United States, art. 1, s. 8, vests ...
NECESSARY INTROMISSION, Scotch law. When the husband or wife continues, after the decease ...
NECESSITY In general, whatever makes the contrary of a thing impossible, whatever ...
NEGATION Denial. Two negations are construed to mean one affirmation. Dig. 50, ...
NEGATIVE AVERMENT, pleading, evidence. An averment in some of the pleadings in a ...
NEGATIVE CONDITION, contracts, wills. One where the thing which is the subject of ...
NEGATIVE PREGNANT, pleading. Such form of negative expression, in pleading, as may imply ...
NEGATIVE STATUTE One which is enacted in negative terms, and which so controls ...
NEGLIGENCE, contracts, torts. When considered in relation, to contracts, negligence may be ...
NEGLIGENT ESCAPE . The omission to take such a care of a ...
NEGOTIABLE That which is capable of being transferred by assignment; a thing, ...
NEGOTIABLE PAPER, contracts. This term is applied to bills of exchange and promissory ...
NEGOTIATION, contracts The deliberation which takes place between the parties touching a ...
NEGOTIATION, merc. law. The act by which a bill of exchange ...
NEGOTIORUM GESTOR, contracts. In the civil law, the negotiorum gestor is one who ...
NEIF, old Eng. law. A woman who was born a villain, ...
NEMINE CONTRADICENTE legislation. These words, usually abbreviated nem. con., are used to signify ...
NEPHEW, dom. rel. The son of a person's brother or sister. ...
NEPOS A grandson. This term is used in making genealogical tables. ...
NEUTRAL PROPERTY, insurance. The words "neutral property " in a policy of insurance, ...
NEUTRALITY, international law. The state of a nation which takes no part ...
NEW Something not known before. 2. To be patented, ...
NEW AND USEFUL INVENTION This phrase is used in tlie act of congress relating to ...
NEW FOR OLD A term used in the law of insurance in cases ...
NEW HAMPSHIRE The name of one of the original states of the United ...
New Hampshire </center> <pre>New Hampshire Reports. From 1816 ...
NEW JERSEY The name of one of the original states of the ...
New Jersey </center> <pre>Coxes' Reports. From 1790 to ...
NEW MATTER, pleading. All facts alleged in pleading, which go in avoidance of ...
NEW or NOVEL ASSIGNMENT, pleading. Declarations are conceived in very general terms, and sometimes, from ...
NEW PROMISE A contract made, after the original promise has for some cause ...
NEW TRIAL, practice, A reexamination of an issue in fact, before a court ...
NEW WORK In Louisiana, by a new work is understood every sort of ...
NEW YORK The name of one of the original states of the ...
New York </center> <pre>Coleman &amp; Caine's Cases. From ...
NEWLY DISCOVERED EVIDENCE That evidence which, after diligent search for it, was not discovered ...
NEWSPAPERS Papers for conveying news, printed and distributed periodically. 2. ...
NEXT FRIEND One who, without being regularly appointed guardian, acts for the benefit ...
NEXT OF KIN This term is used to signify the relations of a party ...
NEXUM, Rom. civ. law. Viewed as to its object and legal ...
NIE'@QT DEDIRE To say nothing. 2. These words are used ...
NIECE, domestic relations: The daughter of a person's brother or sister. Amb. ...
NIEF, old Eng. law. A woman born in vassalage. In Latin ...
NIENT COMPRISE Not included. It is an exception taken to a petition, because ...
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