Necessitas vincit legem. Necessity controls the law. Hob. 144 ; Cooley, Const. Lim. 747.
Necessity creates equity.
Negatio conclusionis est error in lege. The denial of a conclusion is error in law. Wing. Max. 268.
Negligentia semper habet infortuwiam comitem.
Negligence always has misfortune for a companion. Co. Litt. 246 ; Shep. Touch. 476.
Neminem Zcedit qui jure suo utitur. He who stands on his own rights injures no one.
Neminem oportet esse sapientiorem legibus. No man ought to be wiser than the laws. Co. Litt. 97.
Nemo admittendus est inhabilitare seipsum. No one is allowed to incapacitate himself. Jenk. Cent. 40. See STULTIFY.
Nemo agit in seipsum. No man acts against him self. Jenk. Cent. 40. Therefore no man can be a judge in his own cause. Broom, Max. 216, n.; 4 Bingh. 151; 2 Exch. 595 ; 18 C. B. 253 ; 2 B. & AId. 822.
Ncmo aliens; rei, sine satisdatione, defensor idoneus intelligitur. No man is considered a com pettnt defender of another's property, without se curity.
Nemo alien nomine Zege agere potest. No man can sue at law in the name of another. Dig. 5h 17. 123.
Nemo aliquam partem recte intelligere potest, an tequam totum iterum atque iterum perlegerit. No one can properly understand any part of a thing till he has read through the whole again and again.
3 Co. 59 ; Broom, Max. 593.
Nemo allegans suam turpitudinem audiendus est.
No one alleging his own turpitude is to be heard as a witness. 4 Inst. 279 ; 12 Pick. (Mass.) 667. This is not a rule of evidence, but applies to a party seeking to enforce a right founded on an illegal consideration ; 94 U. S. 426, 24 L. Ed. 204.
Nemo bis punitur pro eodem delicto. No one can be punished twice for the same offence. 2 Hawk. Pl. Cr. 377 ; 4 Sharsw. Bla. Com. 315.
Nemo cogitationis pcenam patitur. No one suf fers punishment on account of his thoughts. Tray ner, Max. 362.
Nemo cogitur rem suam vendere, etiam just° prctio. No one is bound to sell his property, even for a just price. But see EMINENT DOMAIN.
Nemo contra factum scum venire potest. No man can contradict his own deed. 2 Inst. 66.
Nemo damnum facit, nisi qui id fecit quod facere jus non habet. No one is considered as doing dam
age, unless he who is doing what he has no right to do. Dig. 50. 17. 151.
Nemo dat qui non habet. No one can give who does not possess. Broom, Max. 499, n.; Jenk. Cent. 250.
Nemo de dom° sua extrahi debet. A citizen can not be taken by force from his house. Dig. 50. 17. 103. (This maxim in favor of Roman liberty is much the same as that every man's house is his castle.) Broom, Max. 432, n.
Nemo debet aliens jactura locwpletari. No one ought to gain by another's loss. 2 Kent. 336. Nemo debet bis punirl, pro uno deticto. No one ought to be punished twice for the same offence.
4 Co. 43; 11. id. 69 b; Broom, Max. 348.
Nemo debet bis vexari pro eadem causa. No one should be twice harassed for the same cause. 2 Johns. (N. Y.) 182 ; 13 id. 163 ; 6 Hill (N. Y.) 133 ; 2 Barb. (N. Y.) 285 ; 6 id. 32. • Nemo debet bis vexari pro one et eadem cause. No one ought to be twice vexed for one and the same cause. 5 Pet. (U. S.) 61, 8 L. Ed. 25; 1 Archb. Pr. by Ch. 476 ; 2 Mass. 366 ; 17 id. 425.
Nemo debet bis vexari, si constat curial quod sit pro una et eadem causa. No man ought to be twice punished, if it appear to the court that it is for one and the same cause of action. 6 Co. 61 ; Broom, Max. 327, 348; 6 Mass. 176 ; 7 id. 423 ; 99 id. 203.
Nemo debet esse judex in propria cause. No one should be judge in his own cause. 12 Co. 114 ; Broom, Max. 116. See JuncE.
Nemo debet immiscere se rei alienw ad se nihil pertinenti. No one should interfere in what in no way concerns him. Jenk. Cent. 18.
Nemo debet in communione invites teneri. No one should be retained in a partnership against his will. 2 Sandf. (N. Y.) 668, 593 ; 1 Johns. (N. Y.) 106, 114.
Nemo debet locupletari ex alteritts incommodo. No one ought to be made rich out of another's lose. Jenk. Cent. 4 ; 10 Barb. (N. Y.) 626, 633.
Nemo debet rem suam sine facto aut defectu suo amittere. No one should lose his property without his own act or negligence. Co. Litt. 263.