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New counts. The collection called “Nov# Narrationcs” contains pleadings in actions during the reign Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Land newly plowed and con-verted into tillage, and which has not been tilled before within the memory of man; also fallow land […]

The name of an im-positipn or duty. See Antiqua Custuma Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

• New statutes. An appellation sometimes given to the statutes whicb have been passed since the beginning of the reign of Edward […]

In the law of evidence, matters deemed notorious do not require to be proved. There does not seem to be any recognized […]

In Scotch law. open; no-. torious. A notour bankrupt is a debtor who, being under diligence by horning and caption of his […]

The Scotch form of “nota-rial,” (q. v.) Bell Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

The state of being notorious or universally well known Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Lat. In the civil law. The power of hearing and trying a matter of Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Lat. Knowledge; informa-tion; Intelligence; notice Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In legal proceedings, and in respect to public matters, this word is generally, if not universally, used as Importing a notice given […]

As soon as a notary has made presentment and demand of a bill of ex-change, or at some seasonable hour of tbe […]

Lat in Roman law. A natural child ar a person, of spurious birth Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Knowledge; Information; the result of observation, whether by the senses or the mind; knowledge of the existence of a fact or state […]

In English probate prac-tice, notation is the act of making a merno-randum of some special circumstance on a probate or letters of […]

In practice. Memoranda made by a judge on a trial, as to the evidence adduced, and the points reserved, etc. A copy […]

Lat in Roman Uv. A Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

A public officer whose function ia to attest and certify, by his hand and official seal, certain classes of documents, in order […]

In civil and old European law. Short-hand characters or marks of contraction, in which the emperors* secretaries took down what they dictated. […]

Taken by a notary; performed by a notary in his official capacity; belonging to a notary and evidencing hls offi-cial character, as, […]

These words, when written across the face of a negotiable instrument, operate to destroy Its negotiability. Durr v. State, 59 Ala. 24 […]

Lat. In the civil law. A mark or brand put upon a person by the law. Mackeld. Rom. Law, | 135 Source: […]

A verdict in a Scotch criminal trial, to the effect that the guilt of the accused is not made out, though his […]

A return sometimes made by sheriffs or constables to a writ of execution; but it is not a technical formula, and is […]

In English practice. A plea of the general issue by a defendant in a civil’ action, when he intends to give special […]