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One which is enacted in negative terms, and which so controls the common law, that it has no force in opposition to the statute. … [Read more...] about NEGATIVE STATUTE

See INSANITY. … [Read more...] about NECROPHILISM

Omission; failure to do something that one is bound, to do; carelessness. The term is used in the law of bailment as synonymous with "negligence". But the latter word is the closer translation of the Latin "negligentia." As used in respect to the payment of money, refusal is the failure to pay money when demanded; neglect is the failure to pay money which the party is bound to … [Read more...] about NEGLECT

An autopsy, or post-mortern examination of a human body. … [Read more...] about NECROPSY

Latin: In the civil law. Carelessness; inattention; the omission of proper care or forethought The term is not exactly equivalent to our "negligence," inasmuch as it was not any negligentia, but only a high or gross degree of it, that amounted to culpa, (actionable or punishable fault) Negligentia semper nabet infortunium eomitem. Negligence always has misfortune for a … [Read more...] about NEGLEGENTIA