NON 
minals committed to their carey as alfo the charge of fuch as 
were confined prifoners. They had alfo power to feize 
thieves, kidnappers, and highwaymen, upon fufpicion; and, 
if they confefled the fa&, to put themto death: if not, 
they were soe to profecute them in a judicial w 
s were likewife officers belonging to the 
whofe bufinefs 1t was to inftru& thofe who 
Nomopuy Lac 
iat: games, w 
See HeEt- 
were to contend in all the laws of the games. 
LENODICE. 
NOMOTHET2, Nopo$lus, among the Athenians, 
were a thoufand in number, and chofen by lot out of fuch as 
Their office was not 
sarin A 
to the ar 
NO we an in Sea Language, is the command given by 
the eilot-< or quarter-mafter to the helmfman, to fteer the 
fhip zo nearer to the diretion of the wind than the fl will 
operate to advance the fhip in her courfe. 
a in Geo graphy, a city of Africa, in the 
province cf Ved 4 e Non, Ucoucing to the empire of Mo- 
rocco, two days’ journey § from the fea-coaft, and oppofite to 
the cape . the fam 
Non, or Nu Ca ws a cape of the fame province, dif- 
coed oy the Portuguefe i in the beginning of the fifteenth 
nae » and fo named by them, becaufe thofe who doubled 
t firft never returned. N. lat. 28’ 38’. W. long. 11° 5/. 
on, Vied See ViEp de Non. 
NA, a mean fea-port town and bifhop’s fee 
of Dilnatia, fituated on a {mall ifland, furrounded by a 
fh 
Scardona. 
NON-A 
the plaintiff in a caule, on fome juft ground why he cannot 
commence a fuit in law; as premunire, outlawry, being 
profeffed in religion, excommunicate, or a ftranger-born. 
This laft holds only on ations real, and mixed : aud not in 
perfonal, except he be both a ftranger and an e e 
civilians fay, that fuch aman hath not perfonam fant i in ju- 
dicio. See Disanivity. 
NON-ADMITTAS. See Ne ddmitt 
LE and Decima, were payments oe made to the 
who were tenants of church-farms. 
y claimed for things belong- 
ing to hufbandry ; the decime were claimed in right of the 
church. 
NONAGE, in Law, an incapacity of doing certain 
things from want of age. 
The term of zonage is different, with regard to different 
things. In matters of inheritance, a man is in his nonage till 
twenty-one years ; for marriage only to fourteen, &c. Se 
AGEa in pay INOR. 
E, Nonagium, alfo denotes the ninth part of a 
man’s aad cH goods, " aaciently paid in the nature of a mor 
tuary ; pe claimed by the clergy upon the death of thofe 
of their parifh 
NON 
At firft this was a third part of the goods, and was called 
ees ; till by a bull of Clement VI. it was reduced toa 
nth. 
"NONAGESIMAL, in Aftronomy, the ninetieth de- 
ae of the ecliptic, reckoned from its eaftern term, or 
PeThe altitude of the nonagefimal is equa. to the angle of 
the eaft ; and, if continued, paffes through the poles of the 
ecliptic : whence the altitude of the nonagefimal, at a given 
time, under a given elevation of the pole, is eafily found. 
If the altitude of the nunagefimal be fubtraGed from go’, 
= ail is the diltance of the nonagefimal from the 
< 
“NONAGON, a figure ae Si angles and fides. 
NONAME, in Geo agrapl by, a lake of North America, 
extending from N. a about 50 miles N., and about 
35 miles es E. to W » aboundin with ‘ 
NONANCOODRT, wn of France, in the depart- 
ment of the Eure, and ch place ~ a canton, in the diftri@ 
of Evreux; 7 miles W. of Dre e place contains 
1145, and the canton 9019 inhabitant, on a territory of 
1722 kiliometres, in 15 co 
NT, a town of France, in the department of the 
Orne; 18 miles N. of Argent 
NONANTALA, a town = Italy, in the department 
of the Panaro; 10 miles . of Modena. 
NON- AP PPEARANCE, in Law, a Slee in not ap- 
pearing in a court of judicature. See APPEAR 
ASPE, in Geography, a town of Spain, i in Fagen 3 
18 miles E. of Alcaniz 
NON- ASSUMPSIT, in oie a plea in perfonal actions, 
whereby a man denies any p e made, &c. or that he 
made any fuch ee within fix years, which is an effec- 
tual bar to the complain 
NONATE > in " Botayy a genus of Aublet’s, fo 
called from the name give t by the natives of Guiana, 
Nono ee ubl. Guian. v. 1. 182. t. 70—74. Juff. 
205. . Iu. t 155. (Oribafia; Schreb. 523.)— 
This eae which claims attention from the virtues attri- 
buted to an infufion of the leaves of one of its fpecies, in 
the althma, is eo y Schreber, p. 822, to PsycHo- 
TRIA. Seet rticle. 
NON- CLAIM. j in Law, the omiffion or negle& of him 
who challenges ain his right within the time limited by law: 
as, within a year a ay where continual claim ought to 
e made. See Cha 
ee after the diffeifin. 
non-claim, or negleét of demnding his rig ee 
NON COMPOS MENT Is, a ada denoting a coten 
not to be of found — or underftanding. 
this, in common law, there are “aid to be four kinds. 
Firft, an idiot — fecondly, he that by accident lofeth 
his memory and underftanding ; thirdly, a “lunatic, that has 
lucida intervalla, fometimes underftanding, and fometimes 
not; fourthly, he that by his own a@, for a time, ae eth 
himfelf of his right fenfes, as gai aeetel But this laft kind 
fhall give no privilege to him, or his heir 
A defcent takes away the e entry el an i: aliee, though the 
want of So were perpet Under the general 
ame of “ non compos mentis,”’ which fir Edward Coke 
fays ( Inft. 24.) is the moft legal name, are comprifed not 
only lunatics, but perfors under frenzies ; or who lofe their 
intelleAs by difeafe ; thofe that become deaf, dumb, and blind, 
not being born fo; or fuch, in thort, as are judged my the 
