pleading. No such record 2. When a party claims to recover on the evidence of a record, as in an action on scire facias, or when he sets up his defence on matter of record, as a former acquittal or former recovery, the opposite party may plead or, reply nul tiel record, there is no such record; in which case the issue thus raised is called an issue of nul tiel record, and it is … [Read more...]
NULLUM FECERUNT ARBITRIUM
The name of a plea to an action of debt upon an obligation for the performance of an award, by which the defendant denies that he submitted to arbitration … [Read more...]
NUBILIS
Latin: In the civil law. Marriageable; one who is of a proper age to be married. … [Read more...]
NUCES COLLIGERE
Latin: To collect nuts. This was formerly onef of the works or services imposed by lords upon their inferior tenants. Paroch. Antiq. 495. Nuda paotio oblinationem aos parlt. A naked agreement i.e., without consideration] does not beget an obligation. Dig. 2, 14, 7, 4; Broom, Max. 746. … [Read more...]
NUDA PATIENTIA
Lat. Mere sufferance. … [Read more...]