Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

NEMO DE DOMO, ETC.

NEGOTIATE

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Neminem oportet esse sapientiorem legibus. Co. Litt. 976. No man ought to be wiser than the laws. NEMO. Lat. No one; no man. The initial word of many Latin phrases and maxims, among which are the following: Nemo admittendus est inhabilitare> seipsum. Jenk. Cent. 40. No man is to be admitted to incapacitate himself. Nemo agit in seipsum. No man acts against himself. Jenk. Cent. p. 40, case 76. A man cannot be a judge and a party in his own cause. Id.; Broom, Max. 216n. Nemo alienee rei, sine satisdatione, de fensor idoneus intelligitur. No man is considered a competent defender of another's property, without security. A rule of the Roman law, applied in part in admiralty cases. 1 Curt. 202. Nemo alieno nomine lege agere potest. No one can sue in the name of another. Big. 50, 17, 123. Nemo allegans suam turpitudinem est audiendus. No one alleging his own base ness is to be heard. The courts of law have properly rejected this as a rule of evidence. 7 Term R. 601. Nemo bis punitur pro eodem delicto. No man is punished twice for the same of fense. 4 Bl. Comm. 315; 2 Hawk. P. C. 377. Nemo cogitationis poenam patitur. No one suffers punishment on account of his thoughts. Tray. Lat. Max. 362. Nemo cogitur rem suam vendere, etiam justo pretio. No man is compelled to sell his own property, even for a just price. 4 Inst. 275. Nemo contra faetum suum venire po test. No man can contravene or contradict his own deed. 2 Inst. 66. The principle of estoppel by deed. Best, Ev. p. 408, § 370. Nemo dare potest quod non habet. No man can give that which he has not. Fleta, lib. 3, c. 15, § 8. Nemo dat qui non habet. He who hath not cannot give. Jenk. Cent. 250* Broom, Max. 499n; 6 C. B. (N. S.) 478. Nemo de domo sua extrahi potest. No one can be dragged out of his own house. In other words, every man's house is his cas tle. Dig. 50, 17, 103.

tiability to bills, notes, checks, etc., in which they are inserted; for instance, a direction to pay to A. "or order" or "bearer." NEGOTIATE. To discuss or arrange a sale or bargain; to arrange the preliminaries of a business transaction. Also to sell or discount negotiable paper, or assign or trans fer it by indorsement and delivery. NEGOTIATION. The deliberation, dis cussion, or conference upon the terms of a proposed agreement; the act of settling or arranging the terms and conditions of a bar gain, sale, or other business transaction. Also the transfer of, or act of putting into circulation, a negotiable instrument. NEGOTIOBUM GESTIO. Lat. In the cifil law. Literally, a doing of business or businesses. A species of spontaneous agency, or an interference by one in the af fairs of another, in his absence, from be nevolence or friendship, and without author ity. 2 Kent, Comm. 616, note; Inst. 3,28,1. NEGOTIOBUM GESTOB. Lat. In the civil law A transactor or manager of busi ness; a person voluntarily constituting him self agent for another; one who,without any mandate or authority, assumes to take charge of an affair or concern for another person, in the latter's absence, but for his interest. One who spontaneously, and without the knowledge or consent of the owner, inter meddles with his property, as to do work on it, or to carry it to another place, etc Story, Bailin. § 189. NEGBO. The word "negro" means a black man, one descended from the African race, and does not commonly include a mulat to. 18 Ala. 720. NEI3P. In old English law. A woman who was born a villein, or a bondwoman. NEIGHBOBHOOD. A place near; an adjoining or surrounding district; a more im mediate vicinity; vicinage. See 63 N. H. 247; 3 N. Y. 502; 38 Iowa, 484. NEMBDA. In Swedish and Gothic iaw. A jury 3 Bl. Comm. 349, 359. NEMINE CONTBADICENTE. Lat. No one dissenting; no one voting in the nega tive. A phrase used to indicate the unanimous consent of a court o»- legislative body to a Judgment, resolution, vote, or motion. Com monly abbreviated "nem. con."

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