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Necessary and proper






Necessary and proper

The Constitution of the United States, art. 1, s. 8, vests in congress the power " to make all laws, which shall be necessary and proper, for carrying into execution the foregoing powers, and all other powers vested by this constitution in the government of the United States, in any department or officer thereof."

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Constitution
1) Contracts. The constitution of a contract, is the making of the contract as, the written constitution of a debt. 2) Government. The fundamental law of the state, containing the principles upon which the government is founded, and regulating the divisions of the sovereign powers, directing to what persons each of these powers is to be confided, and the, manner it is to be exercised as, the Constitution of the United States.

States
By this name are understood in some countries, the assembly of the different orders of the people to regulate the affairs of the commonwealth, as, the states general.

Congress
Med. juris. This name was anciently given in France, England, and other countries, to the-indecent intercourse between married persons, in the presence of witnesses appointed by the courts, in cases when the husband or wife was charged by the other with impotence.

Power
This is either inherent or derivative. The former is the right, ability, or faculty of doing something, without receiving that right, ability, or faculty from another. The people have the power to establish a form of govemment, or to change one already established. A father has the legal power to chastise his son; a master, his apprentice.

Proper
That which is essential, suitable, adapted, and correct.

Execution
1) Contracts. The accomplishment of a thing; as the execution of a bond and warrant of attorney, which is the signing, sealing, and delivery of the same. 2) Criminal law. The putting a convict to death, agreeably to law, in pursuance of his sentence.

Government
"natural and political law. The manner in which sovereignty is exercised in each state. There are three simple forms of government, the democratic, the aristocratic, and monarchical. But these three simple forms may be varied to infinity by the mixture and divisions of their different powers. Sometimes by the word government is understood the body of men, or the individual in the state, to whom is entrusted the executive power. It is taken in this sense when the government is spoken of in opposition to other bodies in the state.

Department
A portion of a country.



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

Necessary intromission
Scotch law. When the husband or wife continues, after the decease of his or her companion in possession of the decedent's goods, for their preservation.

Necessity
In general, whatever makes the contrary of a thing impossible, whatever may be the cause of such impossibilities,



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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.

Necessary and proper

Necessary intromission
Scotch law. When the husband or wife continues, after the decease of his or her companion in possession of the decedent's goods, for their preservation.

Necessity
In general, whatever makes the contrary of a thing impossible, whatever may be the cause of such impossibilities,

Negation
Denial. Two negations are construed to mean one affirmation.

Negative
This word has several significations: 1) It is used in contradistinction to giving assent; thus we say the president has put his negative upon such a bill. 2. It is also used in contradistinction to affirmative; as, a negative does not always admit of the simple and direct proof of which an affirmative is capable. When a party affirms a negative in his pleadings, and without the establishment of which, by evidence, he cannot recover or defend himself, the burden of the proof lies upon him, and he must prove the negative.

Negative averment
Pleading, evidence. An averment in some of the pleadings in a case in which a negative is asserted.

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