Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

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NAM1UM VETITUM

NAKED DEPOSIT. A bailment of goods to be kept for the depositor, without hire or reward on either aide. NAKED POWER. One which issim ply collateral and without interest in the do liee, which arises when, to a mere stranger, authority is given of disposing of an interest, in which he had not before, nor has by the instrument creating the power, any estate whatsoever. Caines, Cas. 15. NAKED TRUST. A dry or passive trust; one which requires no action on the part of the trustee, beyond turning over money or property to the cestui que trust. NAM. In old English law. A distress or seizure of chattels. As a Latin conjunction, for; because. Often used by the old writers in introducing the quotation of a Latin maxim. NAMARE. L. Lat. In old records. To take, seize, or distrain. NAMATIO. L. Lat. In old English and Scotch law. A distraining or taking of a distress; an impounding. Spelman. NAME. The designation of an individual person, or of a firm or corporation. In law a man cannot have more than one Christian name. 1 Ld. Baym. 562. NAME AND ARMS CLAUSE. The popular name in English law for the clause, sometimes inserted in a will or settlement by which property is given to a person, for the purpose of imposing on him the condition that he shall assume the surname and arms of the testator or settlor, with a direction that, if he neglects to assume or discontinues the use of them, the estate shall devolve on the next person in remainder, and a provision for pieserving contingent remainders. 3 Dav. Prec. Conv. 277; Sweet. NAMIUM. L. Lat. In old English law. A taking; a distress. Spelman. Things, goods, or animals taken by way of distress. Simplex namium, a simple taking or pledge. Bract, fol. 2056. NAMIUM VETITUM. An unjust tak ing of the cattle of another and driving them to an unlawful place, pretending damage done by them. 3 131. Comm. 149.

N. An abbreviation of "Novella," the Novels of Justinian, used in citing them. Tayl. Civil Law, 24. N. A. An abbreviation for "non alloca tor, " it is not allowed. N. B. An abbreviation for "nota bene," mark well, observe; also "nulla bona," no goods. N. D. An abbreviation for " Northern Dis trict." N. E. I. An abbreviation for "non est inventus," he is not found. N. L. An abbreviation of "non liquet," (which see.) N. P. An abbreviation for "notary pub lic;" also for "nisiprius," (q. v.) N. R. An abbreviation for "New Re ports;" also for "not reported," and for "non resident. " N. S. An abbreviation for "New Series;" also for "New Style." NAAM. The attaching or taking of movable goods and chattels, called "o%/"'or "mort" according as the chattels were living or dead. Termes de la Ley. NABOB. Originally the governor of a province under the Mogul government of Hin dostan, whence it became a mere title of any man of high rank, upon whom it was con ferred without any office being attached to it. Wils. Indian Gloss. NAIF. L. Fr. A villein; a born slave; a bondwoman. NAIL. A lineal measure of two inches and a quarter. NAKED. As a term of juiisprudence, this word is equivalent to bare, wanting in necessary conditions, incomplete, as a naked contract, (nudum pactum,) i. e.,a contract jevoid of consideration, and therefore invalid; or simple, unilateral, comprising but a single element, as a naked authority, L e. one which is not coupled with any interest in the agent, but subsists for the benefit of the principal alone. NAKED CONFESSION. A confession of crime which is unsupported by any evi dence of the commission of the offense.

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