Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

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NATIONAL GOVEENMENT

NATIVITAS. In old English law. Vfl. lenage; that state in which men were born slaves. 2 Mon. Angl. 643. NATIVO HABENDO. In old English law. A writ which lay for a lord when his villein had run away from him. It was directed to the sheriff, and commanded him to apprehend the villein, and to restore him together with his goods to the lord. Brown. NATIVUS. A servant born. Spelman. Natura appetit perfectum; ita et lex. Nature covets perfection; so does law also. Hob. 144. NATTJBA BREVIUM. The name of an ancient collection of original writs, accom panied with brief comments and explanations, compiled in the time of Edward III. This is commonly called "Old Natura Brevium," (or M O. N. B.,") to distinguish it from Fitzher bert's Natura Brevium, a later work, cited as "F. N. B," or "Fitzh. Nat. Brev." Natura fide jussionis sit strietissimi juris et non durat vel extendatur de re ad rem, de persona ad personam, de tempore ad tempus. The nature of the contract of suretyship is strietissimi juris, and cannot endure nor be extended from thing to thing, from person to person, or from time to time. Burge, Sur. 40. Natura non facit saltum; ita nee lex. Nature makes no leap, [no sudden or irregu lar movement;] so neither does law Co. Litt. 238. Applied in old practice to the regular observance of the degrees in writs of entry, which could not be passed over per saltum. Natura non facit vacuum, neo lex su pervacuum. Nature makes no vacuum, the law nothing purposeless. Co. Litt. 79. Naturae vis maxima; natura bis max ima. The force of nature is greatest; nature is doubly great. 2 Inst. 564. NATURAL AFFECTION. Such as naturally subsists between near relatives, as a father and child, brother and sister, hus band and wife. This is regarded in law as a good consideration. NATURAL ALLEGIANCE. In En glish law. That kind of allegiance which is due from all men born within the king's dominions, immediately upon their biith, which is intrinsic and perpetual, and cannot be divested by any act of their own. 1 Bl. Coinin. 369; 2 Kent, Comm. 42.

with reference to a particular locality or sub division of a nation. NATIONAL GOVERNMENT. The government of a whole nation, as distin guished from that of a local or territorial di vision of the nation, and also as distinguished from that of a league or confederation, "A national government is a government of the people of a single state or nation, united as a com munity by what is termed the 'social compact,' and possessing complete and perfect supremacy over persons and things, so far as they can be made the lawful objects of civil government. A federal government is distinguished from a na tional government, by its being the government of a community of independent and sovereign states, united by compact." 6 Ohio St. 393. NATIONALITY. That quality or char acter which arises from the fact of a person's belonging to a nation or state. Nationality determines the political status of the indi vidual, especially with reference to allegi ance; while domicile detei mines his civil status. Nationality arises either by birth or by naturalization. According to Savigny, "nationality" is also used as opposed to "ter ritoriality," for the purpose of distinguish ing the case of a nation having no national territory; e. g., the Jews. 8 Sav. Syst. § 346; Westl. Priv. Int. Law, 5. NATIONALIZACION. In Spanish and Mexican law. Nationalization. "The na tionalization of property is an act which de notes that it has become that of the nation by some process of law, whereby private indi viduals or corporations have been for speci fied reasons deprived thereof." Hall, Mex. Law, § 749. NATIONS, LAW OP. See INTERNA TIONAL LAW. NATIVA. In old English law. A niefe or female villein. So called because for the most part bond by nativity. Co. Litt. 1226. NATIVE. A natural-born subject or citizen; a denizen by birth; one who owes his domicile or citizenship to the fact of his birth within the country referred to. The term may also include one boin abroad, if iiis parents were then citizens of the country, and not permanently residing in foreign parts. NATIVI CONVENTIONARII. Vil leins or bondmen by contract or agreement. N A T I V I DE STIPITE. Villeins or bondmen by birth or stock. CowelL

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