Tag: NA

  • Name And Arms Clause

    Definition of Name And Arms Clause The clause, sometimes inserted in a will or settlement by which property is given to a person, for the purpose of imposing on him the condition that he shall assume the surname and arms of the testator or settlor, with a direction that if he neglects to […]

  • Nash V. Inman

    Definition of Nash V. Inman ([1908] 2 K. B. 1). Held, that necessaries are goods suitable to an infant’s station in life and actual requirements, but the plaintiff must prove that the infant had not a sufficient quantity at the date when the goods were supplied Browse You might be interested […]

  • Nationality

    Definition of Nationality The character or quality arising from membership of some particular nation or State, which determines the political status and allegiance of a person. It may be acquired either by birth or naturalization (q.v.). The following are natural-born British subjects: Any […]

  • Natural Persons

    Definition of Natural Persons Human beings, as distinguished from artificial persons or corporations recognised by the law Browse You might be interested in these references tools: ResourceDescription Natural Persons in the Dictionaries, Natural Persons in our legal dictionaries, Related […]

  • Natural Rights

    Definition of Natural Rights Fundamental rights common to the law of all civilised peoples, e.g., right of personal liberty, of ownership and possession of property, etc Browse You might be interested in these references tools: ResourceDescription Natural Rights in the Dictionaries, Natural […]

  • Naturales Liberi

    Definition of Naturales Liberi Natural children. (1) Children not born in lawful wedlock, opposed to legitimi ; (2) children born as opposed to adopted. (Roman Law.) Browse You might be interested in these references tools: ResourceDescription Naturales Liberi in the Dictionaries, Naturales […]

  • Naturalization

    Definition of Naturalization Takes place when a person becomes the subject of a State to which he was before an alien. An alien who has resided for not less than five years in the United Kingdom, or who has been for that period in the service of the Crown within the last eight years, and…

  • Navigation Acts

    Definition of Navigation Acts Various statutes (especially 12 Car. 2, c. 18) passed for the encouragement and protection of British shipping by excluding foreign ships from trading with British colonies and even with Great Britain. Now repealed Browse You might be interested in these […]

  • National Reporter System

    The National Reporter System, by West in Europe the West’s National Reporter System is a group of regional court reports or reporters that divides the 50 states and the District of Columbia into seven national regions: Atlantic, North Eastern, North Western, Pacific, South Eastern, South […]

  • National Identity

    National Identity in Europe Respect of National IdentityContent about National Identity from the publication The ABC of European Union law (2010, European Union) by Klaus-Dieter Borchardt. The national identities of the Member States are respected. The idea is not for the Member States to be […]