The clear weight or quantity of an article, without the bag, box, keg, or other thing in which it may be enveloped. … [Read more...] about NEAT, NET
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NE RECIPIATUR
Lat. That It be not received. A caveat or warning given to a law officer, by a party in a cause, not to receive the next proceedings of his opponent 1 Sell. Pr. 8. … [Read more...] about NE RECIPIATUR
NEAT-LAND
Land let out to the yeomanry. Cowell. … [Read more...] about NEAT-LAND
NE RECTOR PROSTERNET ARBORES
L. Latin: The statute 35 Edw. I. Section 2, prohibiting rectors, i.e.t parsons, from cutting down the trees in church-yards. In Rutland v. Green, 1 Keb. 557, it was extended to prohibit them from opening new mines and working the minerals therein. Brown. … [Read more...] about NE RECTOR PROSTERNET ARBORES
NEATNESS
In pleading. The statement in apt and appropriate words of all the necessary facts, and no more. Lawes, PI. 62. Nee curia deficeret in justitia exhibenda. Nor should the court be deficient in showing justice. 4 Inst. 63. Nee tempus nee locus occurrit regi. Jenk. Cent. 190. Neither time nor place affects the king. Nee veniam effuso sanguine casus nabet. Where blood is spilled, … [Read more...] about NEATNESS