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Nolle prosequi
out of Court with respect to all the defendants. See now DISCNTINUANCE. The King by his Attorney-General may enter a nolle prosequi on an information or indictment: this does not operate as a bar to anew indictment.
Negotiorum gestor
acts are done, positive presumptions are made bylaw for the benefit of particular parties. thus, if a stranger enter upon a minor'' lands and take the profits, the law will, in many cases oblige him to account
Nation
or less absolute, an organised government, recognised officials, a system of laws, definite boundaries and the power to enter into negations with other nations.
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Mortgage
differs from a vifgage (vivium vadium), so called because neither loan nor property is lost, for the creditor enters into possession of the estate, and receives its proceeds in satisfaction of his debt, with interest, upon which
Meeting
(57 Geo. 3, c. 19). In Thomas v. Sawkins, (1935) 2 KB 249, the right was upheld to enter private premises to attend a meeting to which the public were invited, in reasonable anticipation of misdemeanours or
Matters of religion
community as part of is religion and under the ceremonial law pertaining to temples, who are entitled to enter into them for worship and where they are entitled to stand and worship and how the worship is
Marriage
the church specified in the license, in the presence of two witnesses. After the ceremony the clergyman must enter the particulars of the marriage in the register according to the form laid down in the Births and
Re-entry
Re-entry, the resuming or retaking that possession which one has lately foregone. A clause of this nature, called a 'proviso for re-entry,' is inserted in every properly drawn lease, empowering the lessor to re-enter upon the...
Manumission
it was performed in three several ways: 1st, when with his master's consent a slave had his name entered in the census or public register of the citizens; 2nd, when the slave was led before the pr'tor,
Mandate
to be done; (2) that it should be done gratuitously; (3) that the parties should voluntarily intend to enter into the contract. A mandatary incurs three obligations: (1) to do the act which is the object of
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