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Non-direction, omission on the part of a judge to enforce a necessary point of law upon a jury. See NEW TRIAL; and see (English) Jud. Act, 1875, s. 22, which preserves the right of any party to have the issues for trial by jury left to the jury, with a proper and complete direction to the jury upon the law, and as to the evidence applicable to such issues. See Young v. Hoffman Manufacturing Co., (1907) 76 LJKB 993.