NON 
Noxesucu Harbour, a harbour of the E. coaft of 
Antigua. N. lat. 43° 30', W. long. 61° 
NON IMPL ACTFANDO ALIQUEM DE LIBE 
NEMENTO SINE BREVI, in Law, a writ to prohibit bailiffs 
&c. from oe any man touching his freedom, with- 
out i ag sw 
INTROMITTENDO QUANDO BREVE PRE- 
gguleae IMPETRATUR, a writ s lieaay to 
them 
king to land, sec. as holding of him in capite, deceitfully 
obtained the writ called pracipe in capite, any benefit thereof, 
but to put him to this writ 0 (Reg. Orig. 4. 
This writ having dependence on the court of wards, fince 
fe 
IS 
IES. See Diz 
NON-JURORS, are perfons that *vefafe to take the 
oaths to the government, who are liable to certain penalties ; 
and for a third offence to abjure the realm, by 1 
vicars, &c. are to take the oaths, 
their livings: but the 
of the nonjuring a as he thought fit, not 
out of their ecclefiaftical benefices for Ravi 
Age not exceeding a third part. (1 
feff. 1 . 8.) Perfons refufing the oaths fhall 1 a foe. 
feit, aod fuffer the penalties infliGed on Popith recufants, 
and the court of exchequer may iffue out procefs againit 
their lands, &c. 7 & 8 Will. IIT. cap. 27. See the flat. 
2 Geo. I we 13. and OaTus. 
The non-jurors, or high-church men, were particularly 
diftinguithed by the following principles: 1. 
tained the doétrine of pnffive ubedience. 2. ‘That the heredi- 
tary fucceffion to the throne is of divine intitutioy, and, 
therefore, can never be a fufpended, or anaulled, 
on any pretext. 3. e church is fubje& to the jurif- 
dition, not of the civil aes but of God alone, parti- 
re. 4. t, confe- 
king William IIL. re- 
mained, notwithftanding their depofition, ie bifhops to the 
day of their death; and that thofe w al pe in 
their places were the unjuft peices a 
perty. 5. That thefe unjuft poffeffors of wecleGattical dig. 
nities were rebels againit the ftate, as well as {chifmatics in 
the church, and that all, therefore, who eld communion 
with them, were alfo chargeable with rebellion and fchifm. 
And, 6. That this — which rends the church in 
s fin, whofe punifhment mvft fall 
Cuurcn. 
NIUS, Marcextus, in Biography, a grammarian 
and peripatetic philofopher, who flourithed ie the fourth 
century, was a native of Tibur, now Tiv e is 
known by a work, entitled « De Peconic Sermonis,”’ 
now extant, and which has gone through feveral editions, 
of which the belt is that printed at Paris in the year 1614. 
The author, fays the writer of the article in the Biographical 
Diétionary, has little claim to the praife of accurate learnin 
or judgment, and the work itfelf is chiefly valuable for 
the ee which he cites from authors no where elfe to be 
met wi 
Nontus, Perer, in Spanifh Nunez, a learned Portu 
guefe, and one of the ableit mathematicians of the fect 
NON 
ele was a native of Alcacer. 
on Henry, king 
“ in the Ubively of Coimbra. 
He wat precéptor £6 
manuel’s fon, and tauglit the mathemas 
He pub = the agen 
rp 
on aa » It has been faid that Peter ‘Nonive in | 5305 
firft invented the angles of 45 degrees, made in every meri- 
dian, that he called them rhumbs in his language, and cale 
culated them by fpherical triangles. Nonius died in 1547, 
at the age of eighty: fee the next article. 
o the method of 
was Im- 
proved at different times ; but the admirable divifion now fo 
much in nfe, is the moft confiderable improvement of it 
See VERNIER. 
NON LIQUET, it does not appear, in Law, a verdi 
given bya iors whén a matter is to be deferred to cous 
day of trial 
The fame phrafe was ufed among the Romans: wo 
hearing a caufe, fuch of the judges as thought it not fuffi 
ic clear to pronounce upon, caft a ballot into the urn 
ae ee two letters N. ZL. for non liquet. 
N MER CHANDIZANDO Vicrvatia, a writ to 
ne of affize to enquire whether the magiftratés of futch 
n do feli viétuals in grofs, or by retail, during the 
time of their being in office, which is contrary to an an- 
a ftatute, and to punifh them if they do. "Reg. Orig. 
bat 
ne 
NON MOLESTANDO, a writ which lies for him who is 
molefted contrary to the king’ s protection granted him. 
Reg. of Writs, 184. 
NON-NATURALS, in Medicine, res non naturales, 
ate = caufes and effets of difeafes, whether near or re- 
mo 
Phy rficians have digefted all the caufes = eae into fix 
claffes, which they call the fix non-natur efe are, 
. Air. 2. Meatanddrink. 3. Motion and re : 
pafions of the mind. 5. Excretions and retentions. 6. Slee 
and waking. See each under its proper article, They are 
thus called eee by their ufe or abufe, they become 
either good, naturals ; 3 oF evil, contra-naturals, 
But the divifion, in effe€t, is of no great ufe; the a 
