The state of a nation which takes no part between two or more other nations at war. U. S. v. The Three Friends, 166 U. S. 1, 17 Sup. Ct. 495, 41 L. Ed. 897
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A name given to the English house of com-mons in the time of Henry VIIL
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In medical Jurisprudence. A condltion of weakness or exhaustion of the general nervous system, giving rise to various forms of mental and bodily inefficiency
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The son of a brother or sister. But the term, as used in wills and other documents, may include the children of half brothers and sisters and also grand-nephews, lf such be the apparent intention, but not the nephew of a husband or wife, and not (presumptively) a nephew who is illegitimate. See Shephard v. Shephard, 57 Conn. 24, 17 Atl. 173; Lyon v. Lyon, 88 Me. 395, 34 Atl. 180; Brower v. Bowers, 1 Abb. Dec. (N. Y.) 214; Green’s Appeal, 42 Pa. 25
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LaL No one; no man. The lni-tial word of many Latin phrases and maxims, among which are the following
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In Swedish and Gothic law. A jury. 3 Bl. Comm. 349, 359
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A piace near; an adjoining or surrounding district; a more immediate vicinity; vicinage. See Langley v. Barnstead, 63 N. H. 246; Madison v. Mor-ristown Gaslight Co., 05 N. J. Eq. 356, 54 Atl. 439; Rice v. Sims, 3 Hill (S. C.) 5; Lindsay Irr. Co. v. Mehrtens, 97 Cal. 676, 32 Pac. 802; State v. Henderson, 29 W. Va. 147, 1 S. E. 225; Peters v. Bourneau, 22 111. App. 177
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An abbreviated form of docket entry, meaning that, by agree-ment, neither of the parties will further appear in court in that suit. Gendron v. Hovey, 98 Me. 139, 56 AU. 583
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The word, “negro” means a black man, one descended from the African race, and does not commonly include a mulatto. Felix v. State, 18 Ala. 720. But the laws of the different states are not uniform in thia respect, some including in the description “negro” one who has one-eighth or more of African blood
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In old English law. A woman who was born a villein, or a bondwoman
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I^at. In the clvll law. Literally, a doing of business or businesses. A species of spontaneous ageu-cy, or an interference by oue iu the affairs of another, in hia absence, from benevolence or friendship, and without authority. 2 Kent, Comm. 616, note; Inst. 3, 28, 1
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Lat. In the civil law. A transacter or manager of busi-ness; a person voluntarily constituting him-self ageut for another; one who, without any mandate or authority, assumes to take charge of an affair or concern for another person, in the latter’s absence, but for his interest
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TE. To discuss or arrange a sale or bargain; to arrange the preliminaries of a business transaction. Also to sell or discount negotiable paper, or assign or trans-fer it by indorsement and dellvery. Palmer v. Ferry, 6 Gray (Mass.) 420; Newport Nat. Bank v. Board of Education, 114 Ky. 87, 70 S. W. 186; odell v. Clyde, 23 Misc. Rep. 734, 53 N. Y. Supp. 61; Biakiston v. Dudley, 5 Duer (N. Y.) 377
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. The deliberation, dis-cusslon, or conference upon the terms of a proposed agreement; the act of settling or arranging the terms and conditions of a bar-gain, sale, or other buslness transaction. Also the transfer of, or act of putting into circulation, a negotiable instrument
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In mercantile law. Transferable quallty. That quality of bills of exchange and promissory notes wbicb renders them transferable from one person to another, and from possessing which they are emphatically termed “negotiable paper.” 3 Kent, Comm. 74, 77, 89, et seq. See Story. Bills, S 00
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An instrument embodying an obligatlon for the payment of money is called “negotiable” when the legal title to the instrument itself and to the whole
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Lat. In the civil law. Carelessness; inattention; the omission of proper care or forethought. The term is not exactly equivalent to our “negligence,” ln-asmuch as it was not any negligentia, but only a high or gross degree of It, that amounted to culpa, (actionable or punishable fault
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The omission to do something which a reasonable man, guided by those considerations which ordinarily reg-. ulate the conduct of human affairs, would do, or doing something which a prudent and reasonable man would not do. It- must be determined in all cases by reference to the situation and knowledge of the partles and all tbe attendant drcumstauces. Nitro-Glycerin Case, 15 wall. 536, 21 L. Ed. 206; Blythe v. Birmingham waterworks Co., 11 Exch. 784
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An escape from confinement effected by the prisoner without the knowledge or connivance of the keeper of the prison, but which waB made possible or practicable by the latter’s negligence, or by hls omission of such care and vigilance as he was legally bound to exercise in the safe-keeping of the prisoner
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