New counts. The collection called “Nov# Narrationcs” contains pleadings in actions during the reign
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Land newly plowed and con-verted into tillage, and which has not been tilled before within the memory of man; also fallow land
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The name of an im-positipn or duty. See Antiqua Custuma
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• New statutes. An appellation sometimes given to the statutes whicb have been passed since the beginning of the reign of Edward III. 1 Steph. Comm. 68
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In the law of evidence, matters deemed notorious do not require to be proved. There does not seem to be any recognized rule as to what matters are deem-ed notorious. Cases have occurred in which the state of society or public feeling bas been treated as notorious; e. g., during times of sedition. Best, Ev. 354; Sweet
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In Scotch law. open; no-. torious. A notour bankrupt is a debtor who, being under diligence by horning and caption of his creditor, retires to sanctuary or absconds or defends by force, and is afterwards fonnd Insolvent by the court of session. Bell
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The state of being notorious or universally well known
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Lat. In the civil law. The power of hearing and trying a matter of
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Lat. Knowledge; informa-tion; Intelligence; notice
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In legal proceedings, and in respect to public matters, this word is generally, if not universally, used as Importing a notice given by some person, whose duty it was to give it, in some manner prescribed, and to some person entitled to receive lt, or be notified. Appeal of Potwiue, 31 Conn. 384
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As soon as a notary has made presentment and demand of a bill of ex-change, or at some seasonable hour of tbe same day, he makes a minute on the bill, or on a ticket attached thereto, or in his book of registry, consisting of his Initials, the month, day, and year, the refusal of accept-ance or payment, the reason, if any, assigned for such refusal, and bis charges of protest. This is the preliminary step towards the pro-test, and is called “noting.” 2 Daniel, Neg. Inst. | 939
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Lat in Roman law. A natural child ar a person, of spurious birth
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Knowledge; Information; the result of observation, whether by the senses or the mind; knowledge of the existence of a fact or state of affairs; the means of knowledge. Used in this sense in such phras-es as “A. had notice of the conversion,” “a purchaser without notice of fraud,” etc
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In English probate prac-tice, notation is the act of making a merno-randum of some special circumstance on a probate or letters of administration. Thus, where a grant is made for the whole personal estate of the deceased within the United Kingdom, which can only be done in the case of a person dying domiciled in England, the fact of hls having been so domiciled is noted on the grant Coote, Prob. Pr. 36; Sweet
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In practice. Memoranda made by a judge on a trial, as to the evidence adduced, and the points reserved, etc. A copy of the judge’s notes may be obtained from his clerk
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A public officer whose function ia to attest and certify, by his hand and official seal, certain classes of documents, in order to give them credit and authenticity in foreign jurisdictions; to take acknowledgments of deeds and other oonvey-ancee, and certify the same; and to perform certain official acts, chiefly in commercial matters, such as the protesting of notes and bills, the noting of foreign drafts, and marine protests in cases of loss or damage. See Kirk-sey v. Bates, 7 Port (Ala.) 531, 31 Am. Dec. 722; First Nat. Bank v. German Bank, 107 Iowa, 543, 78 N. W. 195, 44 L. R. A. 133, 70 Am. St. Rep. 216; In re Huron, 58 Kan. 152, 48 Pac. 574, 36 L. R. A. 822, 62 Am. SL Rep. 614; Bettman v. warwick, 108 Fed. 46, 47 C. C. A. 185
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In civil and old European law. Short-hand characters or marks of contraction, in which the emperors* secretaries took down what they dictated. Spelman; Calvin
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Taken by a notary; performed by a notary in his official capacity; belonging to a notary and evidencing hls offi-cial character, as, a notarial seal
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These words, when written across the face of a negotiable instrument, operate to destroy Its negotiability. Durr v. State, 59 Ala. 24
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Lat. In the civil law. A mark or brand put upon a person by the law. Mackeld. Rom. Law, | 135
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A verdict in a Scotch criminal trial, to the effect that the guilt of the accused is not made out, though his ln-nocence is not dear
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A return sometimes made by sheriffs or constables to a writ of execution; but it is not a technical formula, and is condemned by the courts as ambigu-ous and insufficient. See Martin v. Martin, 50 N. C. 346; Langford v. Few, 146 Mo. 142, 47 S. W. 927, 69 Am. St Rep. 606; Merrick v. Carter, 205 IlL 73, 68 N. B. 750
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In English practice. A plea of the general issue by a defendant in a civil’ action, when he intends to give special matter in evidence by virtue of some act or acts of parliament, in which case he must add the reference to such act or acts, and state whether such acts are public or otherwise. But, lf a defendant so plead, he will not be allowed to plead any other defense, without the leave of the court or a judge. Mozley & whltley
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