CAUSA PRO2RMA.
Non reepondebit minor, Iliad in caned dotie, et hoc pro favore doti. A minor shall not answer unless in a ease of dower, and this in favor of dower. 4 Coke, 71.
Non reus nisi mem +lit rea. Not guilty unless the intent be guilty. 1 Story, Contr. 4th ed. 87.
Non soleut gum abundant vitiare acripturas. Sur plusage does not usually vitiate writings. Dig. 59. 17. 94; Broom Max. 3d Lond. ed. 559, n.
Non eolum q'aid sed quid eta conveniens con siderandum, nihil quod inconveniene est licitum.
Not only what is permitted, but what is convenient, is to be considered, because what is inconvenient is illegal. Coke, Litt. 66 a.
Nora aunt lortga ubi nihil est quod demere patois.
There is ne prolixity where there is nothing that can be omitted. Vaugh. 138.
.4Vott Omen eredere, est nerve.' =pietas& Not to believe rashly is the nerve of wisdom. 5 Coke, 114.
NO21. valet exeeptio ejuedem rei cujus petitur eolutio. A plea of that of which the dissolution is sought is not valid. 2 Ed. Ch. 134. .
Non valet inapedimentum quod de jure non sortitur effeetunt. An impediment is of no avail which by law has no effect. 4 Coke, 31 a.
Non verbis toed ipsis relate, leges imponimus. Not epon words, but npon things themselves, do we impose law. Code, 6. 43. 2.
NOU videntur qui errant consentire. He who errs is not considered as consenting. Dig. 50. 17. 116; -Broom, ' Max. 3d Lend. ed. 240; 2 Kent, Comm. 477; 14 Ga. 207.
Non videntur rent amittere quibus propria non, ,fuit. They are not oonsidered as losing a thing. whose own it was not. Dig. 50. 17. 85.
'Non videtur eonsensunt retiratisse si quis ex prte script° minautis aliquid immutavit. He does not appear to have retained his consent, who has •changed any thing at the command of a party threatening. Bacon, Max. Reg. 22; Broom, Max. '-3d Lend. ed. 254.
Non videtur perfectO cujusque id &me, quod ex ea8U auferri potest. That does not truly belong, to any one which can be taken frora him upon oc casion. Dig. 50. 17. 159. 1.
Non videtur quisquam id copere, quod ei necesse est alii restituere. One ia not considered as acquir
ing property in a thing which he is bound to re store. Dig. 50. 17. 51.
Non videtur vim facere, jure true ntitur, et or dinaria actione experitur. He is not judged to use force who exercises his owu right and proceeds by ordinary action. ' Dig. 50:,17. 155. 1. , , Non volet confirmatio;nisi ille, qui confirmat, sit in posiessione rci vel jurie uncle fieri dehef confirm tio ; et eodem mado, nisi fine. cOnfirmatio fit, sit in possesdione. Confirmation is not valid unleas he who confirms is either in possession of the thing itself, or of the right of which confirmation is to be made, and, io like manner, unless he to whom con firmation is made is in possession. Coke, Litt. 295.
Noscitur such's. It is known from its associates. 'The meaning of a word may be asoertained by !reference to the meaning of words associated with it. Broom, Max. 3d Lond. ed. 523; 9 East, 267; .13 id. 531 ; 6 Taunt. 294; 1 Ventr. 225 ; 1 Barnew.
& C. 644; Arg., 10 id. 496, 519; 18 C. B. 102, 893; 5 Mann. & G. 639, 667; 3 C. B. 437; 5 id. 380; 4 Exch. 511, 5191 5 id. 294; 11 id. 113; 3 Term, 87; 8 id. 118; 1 N.Y. 47, 69; 11 Barb, N. Y. '43, 63; 20 id. 644.
Noscitur ex socio, qui non cognoseitnr ex se. He -who cannot be known from himself may be known from his associate. F. Moore, 817; 1 Ventr. 225; 3 Term, 87; 9 East, 267; 13 id. 531; 6 Taunt. 294; '1 Barnew. & C. 644.
Notitia dicitur noscendo ; et notitia non dehet • ela udi care. Notice is called from a knowledge being had ; and notioe ought not to halt, i.e. be imper 'feet. 6 Coke, 29.
Nova eonstitutio futnris formamimponere dehet,s, on ;proeteritis. A new enactment ought to impose form upon what is to come, not upon what is past; Coke, Iost. 292; Broem,,Max. 3d Lond, ed.33, 36; T. Jones, 108; 2 Show. 16; 6 Meas. & W. Exch. 285 ; 7 id. 536; 2 Mass. 122; 2 Gall. C. C. 139; 2 N. Y. .245; 7 Johnp. N. Y . 503 et seq., where this rule is fully considered and the authorities reviewed.