Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

NUPER OBIIT

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excuse for a party summoned, or one who ex plained as for a friend the reason of a party's absence. Bract, fol. 345. An officer of a court; a summoner, apparitor, or beadle. Co well. NUPER, OBIIT. Lat. In practice. The name of a writ (now abolished) which, in the English law, lay for a sister co-heiress dis possessed by her coparcener of lands and tenements whereof their father, brother, or any common ancestor died seised of an estate in fee-simple. Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 197. NUPTLEJ SECUND.E!. Lat. A second marriage. In the canon law, this term in cluded any marriage subsequent to the first.

NUPTIAL. Pertaining to marriage; con stituting marriage; used or done in mar riage. KTuptias non concubitus sed consen sus facit. Co. Litt. 33. Not cohabitation but consent makes the marriage. NURTURE. The act of taking care of children, bringing them up, and educating them. NURUS. Lat. In the civil law. A son's wife; a daughter-in-law. Calvin. NYCTHEMERON. The whole natural day, or day and night, consisting of twenty four hours. Enc Lond.

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