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Not guilty plea
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Not guilty pleaComplete denial of guilt. In criminal cases, a necessary stage of the proceedings required to preserve all legal issues.
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Denial
Pleading. To traverse the statement of the opposite party a defence.
Guilt
Criminal law. That quality which renders criminal and liable to punishment; or it is that disposition to violate the law, which has manifested itself by some act already done. The opposite of innocence.
Criminal
Relating to, or having the character of crime
Cases
General term for an action, cause, suit, or controversy, at law or in equity; questions contested before a court of justice.
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.
Issues
English law. The goods and profits of the lands of a defendant against whom a writ of distringas or distress infinite has been issued, taken by virtue of such writ, are called issues.
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Not found
These words are endorsed ou a bill of indictment by a grand jury,.when they have not sufficient evidence to find a true bill; the same as Ignoramus.
Not guilty
Pleading. The general issue in several sorts of actions. It is the general issue.
Not guilty by reason of insanity
The jury or the judge must determine that the defendant, because of mental disease or defect, could not form the intent required to commit the offense.
Not possessed
A plea sometimes used in actions of trover, when the defendant was not possessed of the goods at the commencement of the action.
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Noscitur a sociis
The rule of law that holds that the meaning of a contract is derived from reading it as a whole. Where parts of a contract contradict each other, a court must restrict the meaning of, or reject, the word or clause that does not adhere to the general meaning of the contract, namely the parties' intent.
Nosocomi
Civil law. Persons who have the management and care of hospitals for paupers.
Not found
These words are endorsed ou a bill of indictment by a grand jury,.when they have not sufficient evidence to find a true bill; the same as Ignoramus.
Not guilty
Pleading. The general issue in several sorts of actions. It is the general issue.
Not guilty by reason of insanity
The jury or the judge must determine that the defendant, because of mental disease or defect, could not form the intent required to commit the offense.
Not guilty plea
Not possessed
A plea sometimes used in actions of trover, when the defendant was not possessed of the goods at the commencement of the action.
Notary
Notary or notary public. An officer appointed by the executive, or other appointing power, under the laws of different states.
Notary public
Notary public or notary. An officer appointed by the executive, or other appointing power, under the laws of different states.
Note
Estates, convention, practice. The fourth part of a fine of lands: it is an abstract of the writ of covenant and concord, and is only a, doequet taken by the chirographer, from which he draws up the indenture. It is sometimes taken in the old books for the concord.
Note of hand
Contracts. Another name, less technical, for a promissory note.
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Denial
Pleading. To traverse the statement of the opposite party a defence.
Guilt
Criminal law. That quality which renders criminal and liable to punishment; or it is that disposition to violate the law, which has manifested itself by some act already done. The opposite of innocence.
Criminal
Relating to, or having the character of crime
Cases
General term for an action, cause, suit, or controversy, at law or in equity; questions contested before a court of justice.
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.
Issues
English law. The goods and profits of the lands of a defendant against whom a writ of distringas or distress infinite has been issued, taken by virtue of such writ, are called issues.
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Not found
These words are endorsed ou a bill of indictment by a grand jury,.when they have not sufficient evidence to find a true bill; the same as Ignoramus.
Not guilty
Pleading. The general issue in several sorts of actions. It is the general issue.
Not guilty by reason of insanity
The jury or the judge must determine that the defendant, because of mental disease or defect, could not form the intent required to commit the offense.
Not possessed
A plea sometimes used in actions of trover, when the defendant was not possessed of the goods at the commencement of the action.
PREVIOUS AND NEXT TERMS--------------------------------------
Noscitur a sociis
The rule of law that holds that the meaning of a contract is derived from reading it as a whole. Where parts of a contract contradict each other, a court must restrict the meaning of, or reject, the word or clause that does not adhere to the general meaning of the contract, namely the parties' intent.
Nosocomi
Civil law. Persons who have the management and care of hospitals for paupers.
Not found
These words are endorsed ou a bill of indictment by a grand jury,.when they have not sufficient evidence to find a true bill; the same as Ignoramus.
Not guilty
Pleading. The general issue in several sorts of actions. It is the general issue.
Not guilty by reason of insanity
The jury or the judge must determine that the defendant, because of mental disease or defect, could not form the intent required to commit the offense.
Not guilty plea
Not possessed
A plea sometimes used in actions of trover, when the defendant was not possessed of the goods at the commencement of the action.
Notary
Notary or notary public. An officer appointed by the executive, or other appointing power, under the laws of different states.
Notary public
Notary public or notary. An officer appointed by the executive, or other appointing power, under the laws of different states.
Note
Estates, convention, practice. The fourth part of a fine of lands: it is an abstract of the writ of covenant and concord, and is only a, doequet taken by the chirographer, from which he draws up the indenture. It is sometimes taken in the old books for the concord.
Note of hand
Contracts. Another name, less technical, for a promissory note.
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