These words when written across the face of a negotiable instrument operate to destroy its negotiability. … [Read more...]

That which is normal or generally accepted and expected; see normal. … [Read more...]

Lat. In the civil law. A mark or brand put upon a person by the law. Mackeld. Rom. Law, 135. … [Read more...]

Opposed to exceptional; that state wherein any body most exactly comports in all its parts with the abstract idea thereof, and is most exactly fitted to perform Its proper functions, is entitled normal. Normal law. A term employed by modern writers on jurisprudence to denote the law as it affects persons who are in a normal condition; Sui Juris and sound in mind. Normal school. … [Read more...]

The tongue in which several formal proceedings of state In England are still carried on. The language, having remained the same since the date of the Conquest, at which it was introduced into England, is very different from the French of this day, retaining all the peculiarities which at that time distinguished every province from the rest. A peculiar mode of pronunciation … [Read more...]