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

This is the English equiva-lent of the Latin term “nulla bona” being the form of the return made by a sheriff or […]

The name of a plea in an action on an award, by which the defendant traverses the allegation that an award was […]

This phrase, when Indorsed by a grand jury on an Indictment, is equivalent to “not found,” “not a true bill,” or “ignoramus […]

Lat Unless. The word is often affixed, as a kind of elllptlcal expression, to the words “rule,” “order,” “decree,” “Judg-ment,” or “confirmation,” […]

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

A member of a secret asso-ciation, (especially in Russia,) which is de-voted to the destruction of the present pollt-ical, religious, and social […]

A thief; a pilferer Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

As to what, by the common law, is reckoned night and what day, it seems to be the general oplnlon that, if […]

LaL Nothing, often contracted to “nil” The word staudiug alone is the name of an abbreviated form of return to a writ […]

L. Fr. Nothing; not Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

The black book or register in the exchequer; chartularies of ab-beys, cathedrals, etc Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

The daughter of one’s brother or sister. Ambl. 514. See Nephew Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In old English law. A woman born in vassalage; a bondwoman Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

A short name; one nicked or cut off for the sake of brevity, without conveying an idea of opprobrium, and fre-quently evincing […]

G, NIDERING, or NITH-ING. A vile, base person, or sluggard; chicken-hearted. Spelman Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Lat. In Roman law. In an-cient tlmes the neaeum seems to have been a species of formal contract, involving a loan of […]

In English practice. Debts dne to the exchequer which the sheriff could Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Lat in Roman law. Bound; bound pereons. A term applled to such in-solvent debtors as were delivered np to their creditors, hy […]

Nearest; closest; Immediately following. See Green v. MoLaren, 7 Ga. 107; State v. Asbell, 57 Kan. 398, 46 Pac. 770; German Security […]

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

According to the usage of the commercial world, a newsimper is defined to be a publlcation in numbers, con-slstlng commonly of single […]

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

The name of a prison ln Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In International law. In-different; impartial; not engaged on either side; not taking an active part with either of the contending states. In […]