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No-contest clause
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No-contest clauseLanguage in a will that provides that a person who makes a legal challenge to the will's validity will be disinherited.
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Will
A will is a legal document in which a person directs how his property is to be distributed after his death. Such documents must be executed in due form and must be duly witnessed.
Person
This word is applied to men, women and children, who are called natural persons.
Legal
That which is according to law. It is used in opposition to equitable, as the legal estate is, in the trustee, the equitable estate in the cestui que trust.
Challenge
1) It is an exception or objection to a juror. 2) A call by one person upon another to a single combat, which is said to be a challenge to fight.
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Nisi prius roll
These words, which signify 'unless before,' are the name of a court. The name originated as follows: Formerly, an action was triable only in the court where it was brought. But, it was provided by Magna Charta, in ease of the subject, that assises of novel disseisin and mort d'ancestor (then the most usual remedies,) should thenceforward instead of being tried at Westminster, in the superior court, be taken in their proper counties; and for this purpose justices were to be sent into every county once a year, to take these assises there. These local trials being found convenient, were applied not only to assises, but to other actions; for, by the statute it is provided as the general course of proceeding, that writs of venire for summoning juries in the superior courts, shall be in the following form. Praecipimus tibi quod veneri facias coram justiciariis nostris apud Westm. in Octabis Seti Michaelis, nisi talis et talis tali, die et loco ad partes illas venerint, duodecim, &c. Thus the trial was to be had at Westminster, only in the event of its not previously taking place in the county, before the justices appointed to take tlie assises. It is this provision of the statute of Nisi Prius, enforeed by the subsequent statute, which authorizes, in England, a trial before the justices of assises, in lieu of the superior court, and gives it the name of a trial by nisi prius.
No award
The name of a plea to an action or award.
No bill
These words are frequently used by grand juries. They are endorsed on a bill of indictment when the grand jury have not sufficient cause for finding a true bill. They are equivalent to Not found or Ignoramus.
No cure no pay
The historic common law principle of salvage which prohibited the payment of any salvage reward where the salvage operations had been unsuccessful. "No cure no pay" contrasts with the historic civilian concept of "assistance", which permitted the payment of salvage remuneration even if no successful result was achieved.
Nobility
An order of men in several countries to whom privileges are granted at the expense of the rest of the people. The constitution of the United States provides that no state shall " grant any title of nobility; and no person can become a citizen ot' the United States until he has renounced all titles of nobility."There is not in the constitution any general prohibition against any citizen whomsoever, whether in public or private life, accepting any foreign title of nobility. An amendment of the constitution in this respect has been recommended by congress, but it has not been ratified by a sufficient number of states to make it a part of the constitution.
No-contest clause
No-fault divorce
A type of divorce that may be granted even though either spouse has not performed any kind of marital misconduct.
No-fault proceedings
A civil case in which parties may resolve their dispute without a formal finding of error or fault.
Nolo contendere
Latin for "I will not defend it." Used primarily in criminal proceedings whereby the defendant declines to refute the evidence of the prosecution. In some jurisdictions, this response by the defendant has same effect as a plea of guilty.
Nomen collectivum
This expression is used to signify that a word in the singular number is to be understood in the plural in certain cases. 2. Misdemeanor, for example, is a word of this kind, and when in the singular, may be taken as nomen collectivum, and including several offences. 2 Barn. & Adolp. 75. Heir, in the singular, sometimes includes all the heirs.
Nomen generalissimum
A name which applies generally to a number of things; as, land, which is a general name by which everything attached to the freehold will pass.
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Will
A will is a legal document in which a person directs how his property is to be distributed after his death. Such documents must be executed in due form and must be duly witnessed.
Person
This word is applied to men, women and children, who are called natural persons.
Legal
That which is according to law. It is used in opposition to equitable, as the legal estate is, in the trustee, the equitable estate in the cestui que trust.
Challenge
1) It is an exception or objection to a juror. 2) A call by one person upon another to a single combat, which is said to be a challenge to fight.
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Nisi prius roll
These words, which signify 'unless before,' are the name of a court. The name originated as follows: Formerly, an action was triable only in the court where it was brought. But, it was provided by Magna Charta, in ease of the subject, that assises of novel disseisin and mort d'ancestor (then the most usual remedies,) should thenceforward instead of being tried at Westminster, in the superior court, be taken in their proper counties; and for this purpose justices were to be sent into every county once a year, to take these assises there. These local trials being found convenient, were applied not only to assises, but to other actions; for, by the statute it is provided as the general course of proceeding, that writs of venire for summoning juries in the superior courts, shall be in the following form. Praecipimus tibi quod veneri facias coram justiciariis nostris apud Westm. in Octabis Seti Michaelis, nisi talis et talis tali, die et loco ad partes illas venerint, duodecim, &c. Thus the trial was to be had at Westminster, only in the event of its not previously taking place in the county, before the justices appointed to take tlie assises. It is this provision of the statute of Nisi Prius, enforeed by the subsequent statute, which authorizes, in England, a trial before the justices of assises, in lieu of the superior court, and gives it the name of a trial by nisi prius.
No award
The name of a plea to an action or award.
No bill
These words are frequently used by grand juries. They are endorsed on a bill of indictment when the grand jury have not sufficient cause for finding a true bill. They are equivalent to Not found or Ignoramus.
No cure no pay
The historic common law principle of salvage which prohibited the payment of any salvage reward where the salvage operations had been unsuccessful. "No cure no pay" contrasts with the historic civilian concept of "assistance", which permitted the payment of salvage remuneration even if no successful result was achieved.
Nobility
An order of men in several countries to whom privileges are granted at the expense of the rest of the people. The constitution of the United States provides that no state shall " grant any title of nobility; and no person can become a citizen ot' the United States until he has renounced all titles of nobility."There is not in the constitution any general prohibition against any citizen whomsoever, whether in public or private life, accepting any foreign title of nobility. An amendment of the constitution in this respect has been recommended by congress, but it has not been ratified by a sufficient number of states to make it a part of the constitution.
No-contest clause
No-fault divorce
A type of divorce that may be granted even though either spouse has not performed any kind of marital misconduct.
No-fault proceedings
A civil case in which parties may resolve their dispute without a formal finding of error or fault.
Nolo contendere
Latin for "I will not defend it." Used primarily in criminal proceedings whereby the defendant declines to refute the evidence of the prosecution. In some jurisdictions, this response by the defendant has same effect as a plea of guilty.
Nomen collectivum
This expression is used to signify that a word in the singular number is to be understood in the plural in certain cases. 2. Misdemeanor, for example, is a word of this kind, and when in the singular, may be taken as nomen collectivum, and including several offences. 2 Barn. & Adolp. 75. Heir, in the singular, sometimes includes all the heirs.
Nomen generalissimum
A name which applies generally to a number of things; as, land, which is a general name by which everything attached to the freehold will pass.
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