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In English law. Per-sons who refuse to take the oaths, required by law, to support the government Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd […]

Those upon which a decision would not determine the action upon the merits, as a plea in abate–ment 1 ChiL Archb. Pr. […]

See Joindeb Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

A writ addressed to the justices of the bench, or in eyre, com-raanding them not to give one who, under color of […]

A term sometimes applied to a will which authorizes the executor to settle and distribute the estate without the intervention of the […]

want of ability to do an act in law, as to sue. A plea founded up-on such cause. Cowell Source: Black’s Law […]

1. The refusal of one state or nation to have commercial dealings with another; simllar to an em-hargo, (q. r Source: Black’s […]

I was not present A reporter’s note. T. Jones, 10 Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

A wrlt to prohiblt bailiffs, etc., from dis-training or Impleading any maii touching his freehold without the king’s writ Reg. orig. 171. […]

Lat He did not break the contract The name of a plea sometimes pleaded in the action of covenant, and intended as […]

He did not commit waste Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Lat He did not impede. The plea of the general Issue in quare impedit. The Latln form of the law French “ne […]

Lat A plea by Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Lat. He did not make it A plea in an action of assumpsit ou a promls-sory note. 3 Man. & G. 446 […]

omission on the part of a judge to properly instruct the Jury upon a necessary conclusion of law Source: Black’s Law Dictionary […]

A writ not to Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Lat. He does not de-tain. The name of the general issue in the action of detinue. 1 Tidd, Pr. 645; Berlin Mach, […]

L. Lat He did not de-mise. A plea resorted to where a plaintiff declared upon a demise without stating the Indenture in […]

Lat. In pleading. He did not grant. The general Issue in forme-don Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Neglect, failure, or refusal to deliver goods, on the part of a carrier, vendor, bailee, etc Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed […]

Lat Not in Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

See De non De Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

A Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Lat. In pleading. Not guilty. It is usually abbreviated “non cul Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)