Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

NEMO PATRIAM, ETC.

NEMO TENETUR, ETC.

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Nemo patriam in qua natus est exuere, neo ligeantise debitum ejurare possit. No man can renounce the country in which he was born, nor abjure the obligation of his allegiance. Co. Litt. 129a; Broom, Max. 75; Fost. Cr. Law, 184. Nemo plus commodi heredi suo relin quit quam ipse habuit. No one leaves a greater benefit to his heir than he had him self. Dig. 50, 17, 120. Nemo plus juris ad alium transferee potest quam ipse habet. No one can transfer more right to another than he has himself. Dig. 50, 17, 54; Broom, Max. 467, 469. Nemo potest eontra recordum veriil care per patriam. No one can verify by the country against a record. 2 Inst. 380. The issue upon matter of record cannot be to the jury. A maxim of old practice. Nemo potest esse dominus et heeres. No man can be both owner and heir. Hale, Com. Law, c. 7. Nemo potest esse simul actor et ju dex. No one can be at once suitor and judge. Broom, Max. 117. Nemo potest esse tenens et dominus. No man can be both tenant and lord [of the same tenement.] Gilb. Ten. 142. Nemo potest facere per alium quod per se non potest. No one can do that by another which he cannot do of himself. Jenk. Cent. p. 237, case 14. A rule said to hold in original grants, but not in descents; as where an office descended to a woman, in which ease, though she could not exercise the office is person, she might by deputy. Id. Nemo potest facere per obliquum quod non potest facere per directum. No man «an do that indirectly which he cannot do directly. 1 Eden, 512. Nemo potest mutare consilium suum in alterius injuriam. No man can change his purpose to another's injury. Dig. 50,17, 75; Broom, Max. 34. Nemo potest plus juris ad alium transferre quam ipse habet. Co. Litt. 809; Wing. Max. 56. No one can transfer a greater right to another than he himself has. Nemo potest sibi debere. No one can owe to himself. Nemo prsesens nisi intelligat. One is not present unless he understands.

Nemo prsesumitur alienam posterita tem SU89 prsetulisse. No man is presumed to have preferred another's posterity to his own. Wing. Max. p. 285, max. 79. Nemo prsesumitur donare. No one is presumed to give. 9 Pick. 128. Nemo preesumitur esse immemor suss seternse salutis, et maxime in ar ticulo mortis. 6 Coke, 76. No one is pre sumed to be forgetful of his own eternal wel fare, and particularly at the point of death. Nemo prsesumitur ludere in extre mis. No one is presumed to trifle at the point of death. Nemo prsesumitur malus. No one is presumed to be bad. Nemo prohibetur plures negotiationes sive artes exercere. No one is prohibited from following several kinds of business or several arts. 11 Coke, 54a. The common law doth not prohibit any person from using several aits or mysteries at his pleasure. Id. Nemo prohibetur pluribus defension ibus uti. Co. Litt. 304a. No one is pro hibited from making use of several defenses. Nemo prudena punit at praeterita revocentur, sed ut futura preevenian tur. No wise man punishes in order that past things may be recalled, but that future wrongs may be prevented. 2 Bulst. 173. Nemo punitur pro alieno delieto. Wing. Max. 336. No one is punished for another's wrong. Nemo punitur sine injuria, facto, seu defalta. No one is punished unless for some wrong, act, or default. 2 Inst. 287. Nemo qui condemnare potest, ab solvere non potest. No one who may con demn is unable to acquit. Dig. 50, 17, 37. Nemo sibi esse judex vel suis jus dicere debet. No one ought to be his own judge, or the tribunal in his own affairs. Broom, Max. 116, 121. See L. B. 1 C. F. 722, 747. Nemo sine actione experitur, et hoc non sine breve sive libello conventional!. No one goes to law without an action, and no one can bring an action without a writ or bill. Bract. foL 112. Nemo tenetur ad impossiblle-. No one is bound to an impossibility. Jenk. Cent. 7; Broom, Max. 244.

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