NON 
demand upon another, and does not enforce 
his claim within a reasonable time, he is 
precluded by law from bringing his action 
to enforce it ; and where a creditor neglects 
to make his claim upon a bankrupt’s estate 
within a certain period, he will not be let 
in afterwards, so as to disturb the dividend, 
and may lose his estate. Non-claim is gene- 
rally applied to the period of five years, 
after which a party is barred by a fine. See 
Limitation. 
Non est factum, is a plea where an action is 
brought upon a bond, or any other deed, and 
the defendant denies it to be his deed where- 
on he is impleaded. In every case where 
the bond is void, the defendant may plead 
non est factum ; but where a bond is void- 
able only, he must shew the special matter. 
NON pros, if tlie plaintiff in an action at 
law neglect to deliver a declaration for 
two terms after the defendant appeal s, or is 
guilty of other delays or defiiultSj against 
the rules of law, in any subsequent stage of 
the action, he is ad judged 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 spiritual 
persons who are not resident, but absent 
themselves for the space of one month to- 
gether, or two months at several times in 
one year, from their dignities or benefices, 
which is liable to the penalties, by the sta- 
tute against non-residence, 21 Henry VIII, 
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 tliem. 
Non suit, where a person has commenced 
an action, and at the trial fails in his evi- 
dence to support it, or has brought a wrong 
action. There is this advantage attending 
a non-suit, that the plantifif, though he 
pays costs, may afterwards bring another 
action, for the same cause ; which he can- 
not do, after a verdict against him. 
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 of 
March, May, July, and Ocmber. March, 
May, July, and October, had six days in 
their nones; because these alone, in the 
ancient constitution of the year by Numa, 
had thirty-one days a piece, the rest having 
only twenty-nine, and February thirty : but 
Not 
when CsEsar reformed the year, and made 
other months contain thirty-one days, he 
did not allot them six days of nOnes. 
NORMAL, in geometry, signifies the 
same with a perpendicular, and is used for 
a line or plane that intersects another per- 
pendicularly. 
NORROY, that is North Roy, Northern 
King, in heraldry, the title of tlie third 
of the three kings at arms, or provincial 
heralds. His Jurisdiction lies on the north 
side of tlie 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, sometimes 
on tlie gravel of garden walks, usually 
after rain in the summer montlis. 
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 sepa- 
rated in tlie sinuses of the base of tlie 
cranium. 
NOT guilty, 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 assumpsit. 
It is' the usual defence where the party com- 
plains of a wrongful injury done to him. 
NOTARY; is a person duly appointed 
to attest deeds and writings; he also pro- 
tests and notes foreign and inland bills of 
exchange, and promissory notes, translates 
languages, and attests the same, enters and 
extends ship’s protests, &c. 
NOTATION, in arithmetic and algebra, 
the method of expressing numbers or quan- 
tities by signs or characters, appropriated 
for that purpose. See Arithmetic. 
There is one thing which deserves par- 
ticular notice, in regard to this subject, and 
that is, the great advantages that may re- 
dound to science, by a happy notation, or 
expression of our thoughts. It is owing 
entirely to this, and the method of denoting 
the several combinations of numbers, by 
figures standing in different places, that the 
most complicated operations in arithmetic 
are managed with- so much ease and dis- 
patch. Nor is it less apparent that the 
