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Next friend






Next friend

One who, without being regularly appointed guardian, acts for the benefit of an infant, married woman, or other person, not sui juris.

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Without
Pleading. This word is adopted in formal traverses, and is a negative signifying "and not for;" accordingly the language of the elder entries sometimes is, It et nemy pur tiel cause.

Guardian
An individual who, by legal appointment or by the effect of a written law, is given custodyof both the property and the person of one who is unable to manage their own affairs, such as a child or mentally-disabled person.

Benefit
This word is used in the same sense as gain and profits.

Infant
Persons. One under the age of twenty-one years.

Person
This word is applied to men, women and children, who are called natural persons.



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Next of kin
This term is used to signify the relations of a party who has died intestate.



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New work
In Louisiana, by a new work is understood every sort of edifice or other work, which is newly commenced on any ground whatever.

New york
1) In Louisiana, by a new work is understood every sort of edifice or other work, which is newly commenced on any ground whatever. 2) The name of one of the original states of the United States of America. ln its colonial condition this state was governed from the period of the revolution of 1688, by governors appointed by the crown assisted by a council, which received its appointments also from the parental government, and by the representatives of the people.

New york convention
The "Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards" was signed on June 10, 1958 in New York. This convention deals with the recognition of foreign arbitral awards (supra) and the enforcement of arbitration clauses (supra).

Newly discovered evidence
That evidence which, after diligent search for it, was not discovered until after the trial of a cause.

Newspapers
Papers for conveying news, printed and distributed periodically.

Next friend

Next of kin
This term is used to signify the relations of a party who has died intestate.

Nexum
Roman civil law. Viewed as to its object and legal effect, nexum was either the transfer of the ownership of a thing, or the transfer of a thing to a creditor as a security. Accordingly in one sense nexum included mancipium, in another sense mancipium and nexum are opposed in the same way in which sale and mortgage or pledge are opposed. The formal part of both transactions consisted in a transfer per Des et libram. The person who became nexus by the effect of a nexum, placed himself in a servile condition, not becoming a slave, his ingenuitas being only in suspense, and was said nexum inire. The phrases nexi datio, nexi liberatio, respectively express the contracting and the release from the obligation.

Nexus
(United Kingdom) Connection.

Niece
Domestic relations: The daughter of a person's brother or sister.

Nief
Old English law. A woman born in vassalage. In Latin she was called Nativa.

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