A writ formerly granted for freeing and discharging persons from serving on assizes and juries. Fitzh. Nat Brev. 165. Non possessor! inoumbit neoessitas proband! possessiones ad se pertinere. A person in possession is not bound to prove that the possessions belong to him. Broom, Max. 714. Non potest adduei exceptio ejus re! eujus petitur dissolutio. An exception of the same … [Read more...]

Let He did not break the contract The name of a plea sometimes pleaded In the action of covenant, and intended as a general issue, but held to be a bad plea; there being, properly speaking, no general issue in that action. 1 Tidd, Pr. 356. … [Read more...]

The name of a judgment rendered against a plaintiff for neglecting to prosecute his suit agreeably to law and the rules of the court. … [Read more...]

I was not present A reporter's note. T. Jones, 10. … [Read more...]

Latin: If, in the proceedings in an action at law, the plaintiff neglects to take any of those steps which he ought to take within the time prescribed by the practice of the court for that purpose, the defendant may enter judgment of non pro, against him, whereby it is adjudged that the plaintiff does not follow up (non prosequitur) his suit as he ought to do, and therefore the … [Read more...]