JNON 



remainder is the distance of the nonagesi- 

 mal from the vertex. 



NONAGON, in mathematics, a figure 

 having nine sides and angles. In a regu- 

 lar no'nagon, or that the sides and angles 

 of which are equal, if each side be 1, its 



area will be 6.182 nearly =_of the tan- 

 gent of 70 to the radius. 



NON claim, in law, where a person has 

 a demand upon another, and does -not en- 

 force his claim within a reasonable time, 

 he is precluded by law from bringing his 

 action to enforce i't ; and where a creditor 

 neglects to make his claim upon a bank- 

 rupt's estate within a certain period, he 

 will not be let in afterwards, so as to dis- 

 turb the dividend, and may lose his estate. 

 Non-claim is generally applied to the 

 period of five years, after which a party 

 is barred by a fine. See LIMITATION. 



NON estfactum, is a plea where an action 

 is brought upon a bond, or any other deed, 

 and the defendant denies it to be his deed 

 whereon he is impleaded. In every case 

 where the bond is void, the defendant 

 may plead non esl factum , but where a 

 bond is voidable only, he must shew the 

 special matter. 



NON/>ros, if the plaintiff in an action at 

 law neglect to deliver a declaration for 

 two terms after the defendant appears, or 

 is guilty of other delays or defaults, 

 against the rules of law, in any subse- 

 quent stage of the action, he is adjudged 

 not to pursue his remedy as he ought, and 

 thereupon a non-suit, or non prosequitur, 

 is entered, and he is then said to be non 

 prosed. 



NON residence, is applied to those spiri- 

 tual persons who are not resident, but 

 absent themselves for the space of one 

 month together, or two months at several 

 times in one year, from their dignities or 

 benefices, which is liable to the penalties 

 by the statute against non -residence, 21 

 Henry VI II. c. 13. But chaplains to the 

 King, or other great persons mentioned 

 in this statute, may be non-resident on 

 their livings ; for they are excused from 

 residence whilst they attend those who 

 retain them. 



NON suit, where a person has com- 

 menced an action, and at the trial fails in 

 his evidence to support it, or has brought 

 a wrong action. There is this advantage 

 attending a non-suit, that the plaintiff, 

 though he pays costs, may afterwards 

 bring another action for the same cause ; 

 which he cannot do, after a verdict against 

 him. 



NOT 



NONCONFORMISTS, the same with 

 dissenters. See DISSENTERS. 



NONES, in the Roman calendar, the 

 fifth day of the months January, February, 

 April, June, August, September, Novem- 

 ber, and December ; and the seventh ot 

 March, May, July, and October. March, 

 May, July, and October, had six days m 

 their nones ; because these alone, in the 

 ancient constitution of the year by Numa, 

 had thirty-one days a-piece, the rest hav- 

 ing only twenty-nine, and February thirty : 

 but when C<es"ar reformed the year, and 

 made other months contain thirty-one 

 days, he did not allot them six days ot 

 nones. 



NORMAL, in geometry, signifies tl 

 same with a perpendicular, and is used ft 

 a line or plane that intersects another per- 

 pendicularly. 



NORROY, that is JVort/t Roy, Northern 

 King, in heraldry, the title of the third ot 

 the three kings at arms, or provincial 

 heralds. His jurisdiction lies on the north 

 side of the Trent, whence his name ; as 

 Clarencieux, on the south. 



NOSE, the primary organ of smelling. 

 See ANATOMY. 



NOSTOCK, the name of a vegetable 

 substance, which seems to differ from al- 

 most all others of the same kind. It is of 

 a greenish colour, partly transparent, and 

 of a very irregular figure. It trembles at 

 the touch, like jelly, but does not melt 

 like that. It is found in all sorts of soils, 

 but most frequently in sandy ones, some- 

 times on the gravel of garden walks, 

 usually after rain in the summer months, 

 NOSTRILS, in anatomy, the two aper- 

 tures or cavities of the nose, through 

 which the air passes, and which serve to 

 convey odours, and to carry off the pituita 

 separated in the sinuses of the base of the 

 cranium. 



NOT guiUy, is the general issue or plea 

 of the defendant in any criminal action or 

 prosecution; as also in an action of tres- 

 pass, or upon the case for deceits and 

 wrongs ; but not on a promise or assump- 

 sit. It is the usual defence, where the 

 party complains of a wrongful injury done 

 to him. 



NOTARY, is a person duly appointee 

 to attest deeds and writings ; he also pro- 

 tests and notes foreign and inland bills ot 

 exchange, and promissory notes, trans- 

 lates languages, and attests the same, en- 

 ters and extends ship's protests, &c. 



NOTATION, in arithmetic and alge- 

 bra, the method of expressing numbers or 

 quantities by signs or characters, appro- 



