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Placitory
Placitory, relating to pleas or pleading.
Plead over
Plead over, to follow up an opponent's pleading by replying, etc., and so overlooking some defect to which exception might have been taken.
Nov' narrationes
Nov' narrationes (new counts). The collection called Nov' Narrationes contains pleadings in actions during the reign of Edward III. It consists principally of declarations, as the title imports; but
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Nuisance
the statute negligence in the authorised method may be actionable. The onus appears to be on a defendant pleading that the nuisance was inevitable and compulsory by statute to show that the highest degree of care was
Mute of malice
Mute of malice, used of one who abstains from pleading to an indictment when he is able to do so. See PEINE FORTE ET DURE.
Non-tenuit
arrears of rent, that the plaintiff did not hold in manner and form, as the avowry alleged. See PLEADING.
Non-issuable pleas
upon which a decision would not determine the action upon the merits, as a plea in abatement. See PLEADING.
Non infregit conventionem
in an action for non-repair according to covenant, whether there was a want of repairs or not. See PLEADING.
Non est factum
its validity in point of law. And see Howatson v. Webb, (1908) 1 Ch 1, and ASSUMPSIT and PLEADING.
Non damnificatus
kept harmless and indemnified, according to the tenor of the condition, Steph. Plead., 7th ed., 300-301. See now PLEADING.
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