In English law. Per-sons who refuse to take the oaths, required by law, to support the government
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Those upon which a decision would not determine the action upon the merits, as a plea in abate–ment 1 ChiL Archb. Pr. (12th Ed.) 249
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A writ addressed to the justices of the bench, or in eyre, com-raanding them not to give one who, under color of entitling tbe king to land, etc., as holding of him in capite, had deceitfully ob-tained the writ called “priccipe in capite,” any benefit thereof, but to put him to bis writ of right Reg. orig. 4
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A term sometimes applied to a will which authorizes the executor to settle and distribute the estate without the intervention of the court and without giving bond. In re Macdonald’s Estate, 29 wash. 422, 69 Pac. 111L
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want of ability to do an act in law, as to sue. A plea founded up-on such cause. Cowell
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1. The refusal of one state or nation to have commercial dealings with another; simllar to an em-hargo, (q. r
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I was not present A reporter’s note. T. Jones, 10
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A wrlt to prohiblt bailiffs, etc., from dis-training or Impleading any maii touching his freehold without the king’s writ Reg. orig. 171.
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Lat He did not break the contract The name of a plea sometimes pleaded in the action of covenant, and intended as a general issue, but held to be a had plea; there being, properly speaking, no general issue in that action. 1 Tidd, Pr. 356.
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He did not commit waste
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Lat He did not impede. The plea of the general Issue in quare impedit. The Latln form of the law French “ne disturba pas.”
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Lat. He did not make it A plea in an action of assumpsit ou a promls-sory note. 3 Man. & G. 446
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omission on the part of a judge to properly instruct the Jury upon a necessary conclusion of law
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Lat. He does not de-tain. The name of the general issue in the action of detinue. 1 Tidd, Pr. 645; Berlin Mach, works v. Alabama City Furniture Co., 112 Ala. 488, 20 South. 418
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L. Lat He did not de-mise. A plea resorted to where a plaintiff declared upon a demise without stating the Indenture in an action of debt for rent. Also, a plea in bar, in replevin, to an avowry for arrears of rent, that the avowant did not demise
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Lat. In pleading. He did not grant. The general Issue in forme-don
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Neglect, failure, or refusal to deliver goods, on the part of a carrier, vendor, bailee, etc
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Lat. In pleading. Not guilty. It is usually abbreviated “non cul
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