NON 
retrasit isan open and voluntary sale cat of = {uit, 
in court, and by this he for ever lofes his aétion 
CONTINUANCE of Procefs.) Before hee jury gave ee ver- 
di& on a trial, it was orang ufual to cal] or demand the 
plaint'ff, in order to anfwer the amercement, to which by the 
old law he was liable in cafe he failed in his fuit. And it is 
now ufual to call him, whenever he is unable to make out his 
cafe, either by reafon of his not adducing any evidence in 
{upport of it, or any evidence arifing in the proper county. 
The cafes in which it is neceffary that the — fhould 
arife in a particular county, are either where the action is 
in itfelf local, or made fo by a& of Siac as in actions 
upon penal fatutes, &c. or where upon a motion to change 
or retain the venue, the sentria ciadertakes to oe ma- 
terial evidence in the county where the aétio 
brought. (2 eb. 1039.) If upon the plaintift’s g 
being called, heii r + he, nor any body for him, appears, 
e is non- fuited, the jurors are difcharged, the action is 
at an end, and the defendant fhal recover his cofts. The 
non-fuited, and judgment fhall be given for the defendant, as 
in cafe of a non-fuit. .Com 
NON SUM Inyormatus. See INFORMATUS non Jum. 
NON TENURE, a plea in bar toa real a@tion, whereby 
the party (the defendant) urges, that he holdeth not the land 
mentioned 1n the plaintiff's count or mea or at leaft 
re) 
e partof it. Stat. 25 Ed. III. c. 16. 1 Mod. Rep. 
Wet d diftinguifhes non-tenure into general and /fpecial. 
The firft where one denies himfelf ever to have been tenant 
of the land in queftion, The fecond where he only alleges, 
that he was not tenant on the day whereon the writ was 
purchafed. 
NON-TERM, the time of vacation between term and 
term. See VacaTi TION 
It was anciently called the time or days of the king’s peace. 
ar sete of God and the Church. 
e Romans it was called ferie, or dies nefafli. 
NON ow in Geograp yy a town of France, and 
alge place of a oe in the department of the Dor- 
il of Perigueux. e place contains 
oa on the canton 12,458 cahabitante. « on a territory of 
275 kiliometres, in 16 communes. N,. lat. 45° 32’, 
ong. 0 44". 
NON USER, or Nec.sct, in Law, is of itfelf a 
dire&t and immediate caufe of forfeiture in public offices, 
ommon 
c £ 
feiture, unlefs ae — Sanger is proved to be occafioned 
therebv. Co. ; 
N NUPLA, i in ne Ttalian Mufic fc, denotes a re time, 
is fpecies of time is otherwife called 
marked %, where nine crochets are ae hea in the bar, of 
which four make a femi-breve in common time, 2. ¢. in the 
OL. XXV. 
NOO 
down ftroke, fix, and but three up; itis ufually beat ened 
2. Nonupla di crome, or fe/gui ottava, marked thus 
bela a qnay ers java 
}. Nonu a di fei rome, ¢ or wipe fet ‘partite nona, thus 
contained , 
a bar, whereo Pile are agate at i mmon time, 
down, and three up: it is ordinarily beat preflifimo. See 
ApAGio, Presto, and Prestissimo. 
Befides ee ther are two one {pecies of nonupla, for 
which fee T 
NON 
US Hane Placentini, in Anatomy, a mufcle, called 
alfo rotundus m or. 
A, in Cae, a town of Corfica; 8 miles 
N.W. of Baitia. 
NOODT, Gerarp, in Biography, a celebrated jurift, 
was born in 1647 at Nimeguen, where he was educated. 
He particularly attached himfelt to the ftudy of jurifpru- 
dence ; and in the third year of his academical courfe, fuf- 
tained two public difputations. After this he vifited the 
univerfities of Leyden, ule =e Franeker : 
he took his degree of do@tor his was in the year 
1669; and after his return i ey sci. he was chofen 
ordinary profeffor of law, being then only 24 years of age. 
3 
In 1679 he was elected profeflor of law at Franeker; and 
publifhed "ea by himfelf, in a thie ya o 
which a better and enlarged edition was given at Leyden, 
in two ali folio, i in 1733 A a ad “author 8 ae be 
Led 
erté de (Conciance. In 
the firft of thefe eae the aan {upports republican 
principles of government ; in the fecond, he carries tolera- 
tion in matters of religion to the full extent. Moreri. 
NOOGA, in Geography, a river of Africa, which runs 
into the Indian fea, S. lat. 28° 
NOOGOO, one of the {mall Friendly iflands; 3 miles 
N.E. of Tongataboo. 
a one of the Hapaee iflands; S.E. of 
NOOHEEVA, or Federal Land, one of the Ingra- 
ham iflands in the Pacific ocean. t. 8°58’. W. long. 
140 5", 
NOOK of Land, Nocata Terre. 
Walter de Pedwardyn, twelve acres and a half of land 
bd called a nook of be but the quantity is generally un- 
In an old deed of fir 
Q 
g 
NOOKEETAH, in Geography, a town of Bengal; 45 
miles N.E. of N 
NOONGOLAH,. a town of Hindooftan, in Bengal; 
12 miles E. of Goragot. 
NOONGOTTY, a town of Hindooftan, in the circar 
of Sohagepour ; 28 miles S.E of Sohagepour 
NOONINGS, in Agriculture, a term provincially> ufed 
to fignify working dinner-times, or a period of reft for plough 
teams. 
NOONOYAN, in Geography, a town on the welt a: 
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