A writ to prohibit bailiffs, etc., from distraining or impleading any man touching his freehold without the king's writ Reg. Orig. 171. Non in legendo sed in intelligendo legis consistunt. The laws consist not in being read, but in being understood. 8 Coke. 167a. … [Read more...]
NON PONENDIS IN ASSISIS ET JURATIS
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...]
NON BIS IN IDEM
Not twice for the samethat is, a man shall not be twice tried for the same crime. This maxim of the civil law (Code, 9, 2, 9, 11) expresses the same principle as the familiar rule of our law that a man shall not be twice "put in jeopardy" for the same offense. … [Read more...]
NON DEMISIT
pleading. A plea proper to be pleaded to an action of debt for rent, when the plaintiff declares on a parol lease. 2. It is improper to plead such plea when the demise is stated to have been by indenture. … [Read more...]
NON CEPIT
He did not take. The general .issue in replevin, where the action is for the wrongful taking of the property; putting in Issue not only the taking, but the place In which the taking is stated to have been made. Steph. PI. 157, 167. … [Read more...]