Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

NULLA PACTIONE, ETC.

NUISANCE

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persons who come within the sphere of its operation, though it may vary in its effects on individuals. A private nuisance is one limited in its injurious effects to one or few individuals. Generally, a public nuisance gives no right of action to any individual, but must be abated by a process instituted in the name of the state. A private nuisance gives a right of action to the person injured. Code Ga. 1882, § 2997. A public nuisance is one which affects at the same time an entire community or neighborhood, or any considerable number of persons, although the extent of the annoyance or damage inflicted upon individuals may be unequal. Civil Code Cal. $3480. A private nuisance is anything done to the hurt or annoyance of the lands, tenements, or heredita ments of another. It produces damage to but one or a few persons, and cannot be said to be public. 8 Bl. Comm. 216; 80 N. T. 582. A mixed nuisance is one which, while producing injury to the public at large, does some special 4amag3 to some individual or class of individuals. Wood, Nuis. S 16. NUISANCE, ASSISE OF. In old prac tice. A judicial writ directed to the sheriff of the county in which a nuisance existed, in which it was stated that the party injured complained of some particular fact done ad nocumentum liberi tenementi sui, (to the nui sance of his freehold,) and commanding the sheriff to summon an assize (that is, a jury) to view the premises, and have them at the next commission of assizes, that justice might be done, etc. 3 Bl. Comm. 221. NUJj. No; none. A law French nega tive paxdiciQ, commencing many phrases. NTJTi AGABD. No award. The name «f a plea in an action on an arbitration bond, by which the defendant traverses the Baking of any legal award. Nul charter, nul vente, ne mil done yault perpetualment, si le donor n'est Mise al temps de contracts de deux droits, sc. del droit de possession et del droit de propertie. Co. Litt. 266. No grant, no sale, no gift, is valid forever, un less the donor, at the time of the contract, is •eised of two rights, namely, the right of possosoion, and the right of property. NUL DISSEISIN. In pleading. No disseisin. A plea of the general issue in a real action, by which the defendant denies that there was any disseisin. Nul ne doit s'enrichir aux depens dea autres. No one ought to enrich him self at the expense of others. AM.DICT.LAW—53

Nul prendra advantage de son tort demesne. No one shall take advantage of his own wrong. 2 Inst. 713; Broom, Max. 290. Nul sans damage avera error ou at taint. Jenk. Cent. 323. No one shall have error or attaint unless he has sustained dam age. NUL TIEL CORPORATION. No such corpoiation [exists.] The form of a plea denying the existence of an alleged cor poration. NUL TIEL RECORD. No such rec ord. A plea denying the existence of any such record as that alleged by the plain tin 4 . It is the general plea in an action of debt on a judgment. NUL TORT. In pleading. A plea of the general issue to a real action, by which the defendant denies that he committed any wrong. NUL WASTE. No waste. The name of a plea in an action of waste, denying the committing of waste, and forming the gen eral issue. NULL. Naught; of no validity or effect. Usually coupled with the word "void;" as "null and void." A'ULLABONA. Lat. No goods. The name of the return made by the sheriff to a writ of execution, when he has not found any goods of the defendant within his juris diction on which he could levy. Nulla curia quae recordum non habet potest imponere flnem neque aliquem mandare carceri; quia ista spectant tan tummodo ad curias de recordo. 8 Coke, 60. No court which has not a record can impose a fine or commit any person to pris on; because those powers belong only to courts of record. Nulla emptio sine pretio esse potest. There can be no sale without a price. 4 Pick. 189. Nulla impossibilia aut inhonesta sunt prsesumenda; vera autem et honesta et possibilia. No things that are impossible or dishonorable are to be presumed; but things that are true and honorable and pos sible. Co. Litt. 786. Nulla pactione effici potest ut dolus preestetur. By no agreement can it be ef fected that a fraud shall be practiced. Fraud

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