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Non-tenure
Non-tenure, a plea in bar to a real action, by saying that he (the defendant) held not the land mentioned in the plaintiff's
former jeopardy
former jeopardy 1 : a common-law plea in bar of autrefois acquit or autrefois convict 2 : double jeopardy
Non-tenuit
Non-tenuit was a plea in bar to replevin, to avowry for arrears of rent, that the plaintiff did not hold in manner and form,
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Actio non
Actio non. A plea in bar under the old system of pleading had a formal 'commencement'-'that the said plaintiff ought not to have or
De injuria sua propria absque tali causa
the replication in actions of trespass, trespass on the case (including a species of assumpsit), and in the plea in bar in replevin, but was not used in any other stages of the pleadings, See Steph. On Plead. All
Nemo debet bis vexari, si constat curi' quod sit pro una et eadem causa
rule is, that the judgment of a Court of concurrent jurisdiction directly upon the point, is, as a plea, a bar, or as evidence, conclusive between the same parties upon the same matter directly in question in
Failing of record
of record, when an action is brought against a person who alleges in his plea matters of record in bar of the action, and avers to prove it by the record; but the plaintiff saith nul tiel record,
Recovery
of two parts: (1) The recovery itself, which was a fictitious rea action in the Court of Common Pleas, carried on to judgment, and founded on the supposition of an adverse claim; and (2) the recovery-deed, which … of the statute De Donis, whereby a tenant-in-tail in possession enlarged his estate-tail into a fee-simple and so barred the entail, and all remainders and reversions expectant there-on, with all conditions and collateral limitations annexed to them,
Abatement
require an immediate remedy, and cannot wait for the slow progress of the ordinary forms of justice. (3) Plea in Abatement.-A defence by which a defendant showed cause to the Court why he should not be sued, or, … misnomer the judge may amend the indictment or information, and call upon the prisoner or defendant to plead in bar to the merits; and by the (English) Indictments Act, 1915 (5 & 6 Geo. 5, c. 90), the
Coke, Sir Edward
Coke, Sir Edward, often, but incorrectly, styled Lord Coke, born in 1551, called to the Bar by the Inner Temple in 1578, counsel in Shelley's case (see that title), Speaker of the House of … Queen Elizabeth, knighted by James I. shortly after his accession in 1603, made Chief Justice of the Common Pleas in 1606 and of the King's Bench in 1613, 'taking particular delight,' writes Lord Campbell in his Lives
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