A will which depends merely upon oral evldence, having been declared or dictated by the testator in his last sickness before a sufficient number of witnesses, and afterwards reduced to wrlt-ing. Ex parte Thompson, 4 Bradf. Sur. (N. Y.) 154; Sykes v. Sykes, 2 Stew. (Ala.) 367, 20 Am, Dec. 40; Tally v. Butterworth, 10 Yerg. (Tenn.) 502; Ellington v. Dillard, 42 Ga. 379; Succession of Morales, 16 La. Ann. 268
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Lat. In the civil and old English law. A fair. In nundinis et mer-cdtis, in fairs and markets. Bract, fol. 56
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Lat. In the civil law. To name; to pronounce orally or in words without writing
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The permanent official repre-sentative of . the pope at a foreign court or seat of government, webster. They are called “ordinary” or “extraordinary,” accord-in^ as they are sent for general purposes or on a special mission
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S. In international law. A. messenger; a minister; the pope’s legate, commonly called a “nuncio.”
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Lat Now for then. A phrase applied to acts allowed to be done after the time when they should be done, with a retroactive effect, i. e., with tbe same effect as if regularly done. Perkins v. Hay-ward, 132 Ind. 95, 31 N. E. 670; Secou v. Leroux, 1 N. M. 388
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Lat. In the civil law. A solemn declaration, usually in prohlbition of a thing; a protest
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The price of anything in money, as denariata is the price of a thing by computation of pence, and Ubrata of pounds
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In English law. A name given to the statute 3 Geo. III. c. 16, because that act, in contravention of the maxim “Nullum tempos occurrit regi,” (no lapse of time bars the king,) lim-Ited the crown’s right to sue, etc., to the pe-riod of sixty years
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Lat. In the dvil iaw. Money told or counted; money paid by tale. Inst 3, 24, 2; Bract fol. 35
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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
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L Lat in pleadiug. The name of a plea
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Lat. In old Engllsh law. of no legal force. Fleta, lib. 2, c. 60, I 24
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Nothing; no proceeding; an act or proceedlng in a canse whlch the op-poslte party may treat as though it had not taken place, or whlch has absolutely no legal force or effect Salter v. Hilgen, 40 wis. 363; Jenness v. Lapeer County Circuit Judge, 42 Mich. 469, 4 N. W. 220; Johnson v. Hines, 61 Md. 122
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Naught; of no validity or effect. Usually coupled with the word “void;” aa “nuU and void.” Forrester v. Boston, etc., Min. Co., 29 Mont 397, 74 Pac. 1088; Hume v. Eagon, 73 Mo. App. 276
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NA. Lat 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 wbich he could levy, woodward v. Harbin, 1 Ala. 108; Reed v. Lowe, 163 Mo. 519, 63 S. W. 687, 85 Am. SL Rep. 578; Langford v. Few, 146 Mo. 142, 47 S. W. 927, 60 Am. St Rep. 606
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Futile; ineffectual; ln-vulld; destitute of constraining force or vi-tality. A legislative act may be “nugatory” because unconstitutional
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Anything that unlawfully worketh hurt, inconvenience, or damage. 3 Bl. Comm. 216
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Lat A naked pact; a bare agreement; a promise or un-dertaking made without any consideration for it Justice v. Lang, 42 N. T. 493, 1 Am. Rep. 676; wardell v. williams, 62 Mich. 50, 28 N. W. 800, 4 Am. St. Rep. 814
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(New Com-^llation.) The title of a code of Spanish law, promulgated in the year 1567. Schm. fclvll Law, Introd. 79-81
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