The failure of a witness to answer a question or to evade answering a question. … [Read more...] about NONRESPONSIVE ANSWER
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NONPERFORMANCE
A failure to perform an obligation, failure to perform according to contractual terms. … [Read more...] about NONPERFORMANCE
NON-SANE
As "sane," when applied to the mind, means whole, sound, in a healthful state, "non-sane" must mean not whole, not sound, not in a healthful state; that is, broken, Impaired, shattered, Infirm, weak, diseased, unable, either from nature or accident, to perform the rational functions common to man upon the objects presented to it. Den v. Vancleve, 5 N. J. Law, 589, 661. Non-sane … [Read more...] about NON-SANE
NON-PERFORMANCE
Neglect, failure, or refusal to do or perform an act stipulated to be done. Failure to keep the terms of a contract or covenant, in respect to acts or doings agreed upon. Non pertinet ad judioem seoularem eognoseere de lis qua sunt mere spiritualia annexe. 2 Inst 488. It belongs not to the secular judge to take cognizance of things which are merely spiritual. … [Read more...] about NON-PERFORMANCE
NONSENSE
construction. That which in a written agreement or will is unintelligible. 2. It is a rule of law that an instrument shall be so construed that the whole, if possible, shall stand. When a matter is written grammatically right, but it is unintelligible, and the whole makes nonsense, some words cannot be rejected to make sense of the rest; 1 Salk. 324; but when matter is nonsense … [Read more...] about NONSENSE