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A clause in an agreement providing a potential purchaser with the exclusive right to negotiate to complete a deal and where the seller cannot make efforts to offer or negotiate the sale with a third party. … [Read more...] about NO SHOP CLAUSE

The black book or register in the exchequer; chartularles of abbeys, cathedrals, etc. … [Read more...] about NIGER LEBER

These words, which signify 'unless before,' are the name of a court. The name originated as follows: Formerly, an action was triable only in the court where it was brought. But, it was provided by Magna Charta, in ease of the subject, that assises of novel disseisin and mort d'ancestor (then the most usual remedies,) should thenceforward instead of being tried at Westminster, … [Read more...] about NISI PRIUS

When a person fails to show up or appear at a place where the person was expected, for example, a missed flight on an airplane. … [Read more...] about NO SHOW

As to what, by the common law, is reckoned night and what day, it seems to be the general opinion that, if there be daylight, or crepusculumr enough begun or left to discern a man's face, that is considered day; and night is when It is so dark that the countenance of a man cannot be discerned. 1 Hale, P. C. 350. However, the limit of 9 P.M. to 6 A.M. has been fixed by statute, … [Read more...] about NIGHT