Naked. This word is applied metaphorically to a variety of subjects to indicate that they are lacking in some essential legal requisite.
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NUDE CONTRACT
a contract where no payments will be made. See nudum pactum .
NUDUM PACTUM
Lat. A naked pact; a bare agreement; a promise or undertaking made without any consideration for it Justice v. Lang. 42 N. Y. 493, 1 Am. Rep. 576; Wardell v. […]
NUEVA RECOPIEACION
d. 5, 14, 1; Broom, Max. 676. NUEVA RECOPIEACION . (New Compilation .) The title of a code of Spanish law, promulgated in the year 1567. Schm. Civil Law, Introd. […]
NUGATORY
Futile; ineffectual; invalid ; destitute of constraining force or vitality. A legislative act may be “nugatory” because unconstitutional .
NUISANCE
Anything that unlawfully worketh hurt, inconvenience , or damage. 3 Bl. Comm. 216. That class of wrongs that arise from the unreasonable, unwarrantable, or unlawful use by a person of […]
NUISANCE ABATEMENT OF
the term used when a nuisance has been removed.
NUISANCE ACTIONABLE
a term that applies to a person who knowingly does something to interfere with a person enjoying his own property.
NUISANCE COMMON
the term that describes a nuisance that affects the general public that differs from one affecting one person.
NUISANCE CONTINUING
the term that describes a nuisance that continues on or is repeated often.
NUISANCE IN FACT
the term given to a nuisance that results from the location of premises or the activity it is involved in.
NUISANCE PER SE
this is the term that applies to a nuisance that exists all of the time and under all circumstances .
NUISANCE PERMANENT
the term used to describe a nuisance that will continue and can’t be remedied without a great expense.
NUISANCE VALUE
The amount that the insurer pays before the validity date of the claim to end the settlement issue with the insured.
NUL
No; none. A law French negative particle, commencing many phrases.
NUL TORT
a Latin phrase that is the defence where the defendant claims he has not committed a wrong
NULL
Naught; of no validity or effect Usually coupled with the word “void;” as ” null and void .” Forrester v. Boston, etc., Min. Co., 29 Mont. 397, 74 Pac. 10S8; […]
NULL AND VOID
Something redundant, or that has no value, or effect, commonly used in the legal sense.
NULL HYPOTHESIS
A proposal that has to be verified before its acceptane or rejection to favor a relative proposal. A common null hypothesis states the absence the absence of a relationship between […]
NULLA BONA
Lat. No goods. The name of the return made by the sheriff to a writ of execution , when he has not found any goods of the defendant within his […]
NULLITY
Nothing ; no proceeding ; an act or proceeding in a cause which the op- posite party may treat as though it had not taken place, or which lias absolutely […]
NULLITY OF MARRIAGE
the term applied to a law suit that will annul a marriage. Also known a nullity suit.
NULLIUS FILIUS
Lat. The sou of nobody ; a bastard. Nullius bominis anctoritas apud nos valere debet, ut meliora non sequere- mur si qnis attulerit. The authority of no man ought to […]
NULLIUS IN BONIS
Lat. Among the property of no person.
NULLIUS JURIS
Lat. In old English law . Of no legal force. Fleta, lib. 2, c. 60,