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To give notice, to inform someone or a party to an action. In legal proceedings, and in respect to public matters, this word is generally, if not universally, used as importing a notice given by some person, whose duty it was to give it, in some manner prescribed, and to some person entitled to receive It, or be notified. Appeal of Potwine, 31 Conn. 384. … [Read more...] about NOTIFY

As soon as a notary has made presentment and demand of a bill of exchange, or at some seasonable hour of the same day, he makes a minute on the bill, or on a ticket attached thereto, or in his book of registry, consisting of his initials, the month, day, and year, the refusal of acceptance or payment, the reason, if any, assigned for such refusal, and his charges of protest. … [Read more...] about NOTING

Lat. In the civil law. The power of hearing and trying a matter of fact; the power pr authority of a judex; the power of hearing causes and of pronouncing sentence, without any degree of Jurisdiction. Calvin; … [Read more...] about NOTIO

The notice given by the holder of a bill of exchange or promissory note, to a drawer or endorser on the same, that it has been dishonored, either by not being accepted in the case of a bill, or paid in cue of an accepted bill or note. 2. It is proper to consider, 1. The form of the notice; 2. By whom it is to be given; 3. To whom. 4. When; 5. Where; 6. Its effects; 7. When a … [Read more...] about NOTICE OF DISHONOR

Lat. Knowledge; information; intelligence; notice. Notitia dicitnr a noscendo; et notitia non debet clandicare. Notice is named from a knowledge being had; and notice ought not to halt, [i.e., be imperfect.] 6 Coke, 29. … [Read more...] about NOTITIA