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NON-DELIVERY
Neglect, failure, or refusal to deliver goods, on the part of a carrier, vendor, bailee, etc. … [Read more...]
NON-JURORS
In English law. Persons who refuse to take the oaths, required by law, to support the government Non Jus on regnla, sod regula en jure. The law does not arise from the rule (or maxim,) but the rule from the law. Tray. Latin: Max. 384. Non Jus, sed seisina, facit stipitem. Not right, but seisin, makes a stock. Fleta lib. 6, c. 2, f 2. It is not a mere right to enter on lands, … [Read more...]
NON-DIRECTION
Omission on the part of a judge to properly instruct the jury upon a necessary conclusion of law. … [Read more...]
NONJURY TRIAL
A trial by judge and without a jury. … [Read more...]