L. Lat. No award. The name of a plea in an action on an arbitration bond, for not fulfilling the award, by which the defendant traverses the allegation that there was an award made. Nullum orimen majus est inobedien-tin. No crime is greater than disobedience. Jenk. Cent p. 77, case 48. Applied to the refusal of an officer to return a writ. Nullum enemplnm est idem omnibus. No … [Read more...]
NUL DISSEISIN
pleading. No disseisin. A plea in a real action, by which the defendant denies that there was any disseisin it is a species of the general issue. … [Read more...]
NULLUM FECERUNT ABBITRIUM
Latin: In pleading. The name of a plea to an action of debt upon an obligation for the performance of an award, by which the defendant denies that he submitted to arbitration, etc. Bac. Abr. "Arbitr." etc., G. Nullum iniquum est prsesumendum in jure. 7 Coke, 71. No iniquity is to be presumed in law. Nullum matrimonium, ibi nulla dos. No marriage, no dower. Wait t. Wait, 4 Barb. … [Read more...]
NUL TIEL RECORD
pleading. No such record 2. When a party claims to recover on the evidence of a record, as in an action on scire facias, or when he sets up his defence on matter of record, as a former acquittal or former recovery, the opposite party may plead or, reply nul tiel record, there is no such record; in which case the issue thus raised is called an issue of nul tiel record, and it is … [Read more...]
NULLUM FECERUNT ARBITRIUM
The name of a plea to an action of debt upon an obligation for the performance of an award, by which the defendant denies that he submitted to arbitration … [Read more...]