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Ne unques seisie quiz dower






Ne unques seisie quiz dower

Pleading. A plea by which a defendant denies the right of a widow who sues for, and demands her dower in lands, &c., late of her husband, because the husband was not, on the day of her marriage with him, or any time afterwards, seised of such estate, so that she could be endowed of the game.

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Pleading
Practice. The statement in a logical, and legal form, of the facts which constitute the plaintiff's cause of action, or the defendant's ground of defence; it is the formal mode of alleging that on the record, which would be the support, or the defence of the party in evidence.

Plea
1) Chancery practice. "A plea," says Lord Bacon, speaking of proceedings in courts of equity, "is a foreign matter to discharge or stay the suit." 2) Practice. The defendant's answer by matter of fact, to the plaintiff's declaration.

Defendant
A party who is sued in a personal action.

Right
1) Sometimes it signifies a law, as when we say that natural right requires us to keep our promises, or that it commands restitution, or that it forbids murder. In our language it is seldom used in this sense. 2) It sometimes means that quality in our actions by which they are denominated just ones. This is usually denominated rectitude. 3) It is that quality in a person by which he can do certain actions, or possess certain things which belong to him by virtue of some title. In this sense, we use it when we say that a man has a right to his estate or a right to defend himself.

Widow
An unmarried woman whose husband is dead.

Dower
A wife's common law right to inherit from her husband.

Husband
Maritime law. The name of an agent who is authorized to make the necessary repairs to a ship, and to act in relation to the ship, generally, for the owner. He is usually called ship's hushand.

Marriage
A contract made in due form of law, by which a free man and a free woman reciprocally engage to live with each other during their joint lives, in the union which ought io exist between husband and wife. By the terms freeman and freewoman in this definition are meant, not only that they are free and not slaves, but also that they are clear of all bars to a lawful marriage.

Time
Contracts, evidence, practice. The measure of duration., It is divided into years, months. days, hours, minutes, and seconds. It is also divided into day and night. 2) Pleading. The avertment of time is generally necessary in pleading; the rules are different, in different actions.

Estate
A right or interest in property or the property of a deceased person.

Game
Birds and beasts of a wild-nature, obtained by fowling and hunting. Animals; Ferae natural



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Ne unjuste vexes
Old English law. The name of a writ which issued to relieve a tenant upon, whom his lord had distrained for more services than he was bound to perform.

Ne unques accouple
Pleading. A plea by which the party denies that he ever was lawfully married to the person to whom it refers.

Ne unques executor
Pleading. A plea by which the party who uses it denies that the plaintiff is an executor, as he claims to be; or that the defendant is executor, as the plaintiff in his declaration charges him to be.

Ne unques son receiver
Pleading. The name of a plea in an action of account render, by which the defendant affirms that he never was receiver of tlie plaintiff.



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Ne recipiatur
That it be not received. A caveat or words of caution given to a law officer, by a party in a cause, not to receive the next proceedings of his opponent.

Ne relessa pas
The name of a replication to a plea, of release, by which tlie plaintiff insists he did not release.

Ne unjuste vexes
Old English law. The name of a writ which issued to relieve a tenant upon, whom his lord had distrained for more services than he was bound to perform.

Ne unques accouple
Pleading. A plea by which the party denies that he ever was lawfully married to the person to whom it refers.

Ne unques executor
Pleading. A plea by which the party who uses it denies that the plaintiff is an executor, as he claims to be; or that the defendant is executor, as the plaintiff in his declaration charges him to be.

Ne unques seisie quiz dower

Ne unques son receiver
Pleading. The name of a plea in an action of account render, by which the defendant affirms that he never was receiver of tlie plaintiff.

Ne varietur
These words, which literally signify that it be not varied or changed, are sometimes written by notaries public upon bills or notes, for the purpose of identifying them. This does not destroy their negotiability.

Neat or net
Contracts. The exact weight of an article, without the bag, box, keg, or other thing in which it may be enveloped.

Neatness
Pleading. The statement, in apt and appropriate words, of all the necessary facts, and ne more.

Necessaries
Such things as are proper and requisite for tlie sustenance of man.

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