The vacation between two terms of a court. … [Read more...]
NON TERM
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NON TERM
NON USER
The neglect to make use of a thing. 2. A right which may be acquired by use, may be lost by non-user, and an absolute discontinuance of the use for twenty years affords presumption of the extinguishment of the right, in favor of some others adverse right. 5 Whart. Rep. 584; 23 Pick. 141. 3. As an enjoyment for twenty years is necessary to found the presumption of a grant of an … [Read more...]
NON USURPAVIT
Latin: He has not usurped. A form of traverse, in an action or proceeding against one alleged to have usurped an office or franchise, denying the usurpation charged. See Com. v. Cross Cut R. Co., 53 Pa. 62. Nom valebit felonis generatio, nec ad hsereditatem paternam vel matemami si autem ante feloniam generatiomem f eoerit, talis generatio suocedit in bu>re-ditate patris vel … [Read more...]
NON INTROMITTENDO, QUANDO BREVE PRAECIPE IN CAPITE SUB-DOLE IMPETRATUR
A writ addressed to the justices of the bench, or in eyre, commanding them not to give one who, under color of entitling the king to land, etc., as holding of him in capite, had deceitfully obtained the writ called "praecipe in capite," any benefit thereof, but to put him to his writ of right Reg. Orig. 4. … [Read more...]
NON JOINDER
pleading, practice. The omission of some one of the persons who ought to have been made a plaintiff or defendant along with others is called a non joinder. 2. In actions upon contracts, where the contract has been made, with several, if their interest were joint, they must all, if living, join in the action for its breach. In such case the non joinder must be pleaded in … [Read more...]