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NULL AND VOID

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Having not value or effect. Is effectively ended completely without amounting to anything. … [Read more...]

NUMMERATA PECUNIA

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Latin: In the civil law. Money told or counted; money paid by tale. Inst 3, 24, 2; Bract fol. 35. … [Read more...]

NULLA BONA

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Latin: No goods. The name of the return made by the sheriff to a writ of execution, when he has not found any goods of the defendant within his jurisdiction on which he could levy. Woodward v. Harbin, 1 Ala. 108; Reed v. Lowe, 163 Mo. 519, 63 S. W. 687, 85 Am. St Rep. 578; Lang ford v. Few, 146 Mo. 142, 47 S. W. 927, 69 Am. St. Rep. 606. Nulla curia quae recordum non habet … [Read more...]

NUNC PRO TUNC

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practice. This phrase, which signifies now for then, is used to express that a thing is done at one time which ought to have been performed at another. Leave of court must be obtained to do things nunc pro tunc, and this is granted to answer the purposes of justice, but never to do injustice A judgment nunc pro tunc can be entered only when the delay has arisen from the act of … [Read more...]

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