NEW 
the Sun, describe areas proportional to the 
times ; that the orbits, or trajectories, are 
very nearly parabola’s ; that their bodies 
are solid, compact, &c. like those of the 
planets, and must therefore acquire an im- 
mense heat in their perihelia; that their 
tails are exhalations arising fiom and en- 
compassing them like atmosplieres. See 
Astronomy. 
NEW trial, inlaw. Formerly the only re- 
medy for a reversal of a verdict unduly given, 
was by writ of attaint; but this course is now 
justly exploded, and a new trial is granted 
upon application to the court from which 
the cause issued. 
A new trial, in many cases, may be abso- 
lutely necessary. But it is not granted 
upon nice and formal objections, which do 
not go to the real merits ; nor where the 
scales of evidence hang nearly equal. It is 
generally upon some misdirection by the 
judge to the jury, in point of law, or where 
NIC ' 
a jury has found a verdict directly against 
evidence ; but where there has been evi- 
dence as to the fact in doubt, on both sides, 
the court will not interfere. It is also 
granted where damages have been given 
beyond the ordinary measure of justice ; 
and where the party has been surprised by 
some evidence which he has subsequently 
the means of answering, but had not at the 
trial. It is always refused where the da- 
mages do not exceed 101. 
NICANDRIA, in botany, so named from 
Nicander of Colophon, a genns of the De- 
candria Monogynia class and order. Essen- 
tial character; calyx turbinate, coloured, 
four parted; corolla one-petalled, ten-cleft; 
germ encircled with a membranaceous ring; 
stigma peltate, orbicular, six-rayed ; berry 
roundish, six-grooved, three-celled, many- 
seeded. There is one species, viz. N. amara, 
a native of the large forest of Guiana. 
END OF VOL. IV. 
C. WHITriNGHAM, Prints, 
103, Gotwell Strett. 
