NE LUMINIBUS OFFICIATOR, civil law. The name of a servitude which restrains the owner of a house from making such erections as obstruct¹ the light of the adjoining house. Dig. 8, 4, 15, 17.

NE RECIPIATUR. That it be not received. A caveat² or words of caution given to a law officer, by a party in a cause, not to receive the next proceedings³ of his opponent. 1 Sell. Br. 7.

NE RELESSA PAS. The name of a replication to a plea, of release, by which tlie plaintiff insists he did not release. 2 Buls. 55.

NE UNJUSTE VEXES⁵, old Engl. law. The name of a writ⁶ which issued to relieve a tenant⁷ upon, whom his lord had distrained for more services than he was bound to perform.

2. It was a prohibition⁹ to the lord, not unjustly to distrain⁸ or vex⁴ his tenant. F. N. B. h. t.

NE UNQUES ACCOUPLE, pleading. A plea by which the party denies that he ever was lawfully¹⁰ married to the person to whom it refers. See the form, 2 Wils. R. 118; Morg. 582; 10 Went. Prec. Pl. 158; 211 Bl. 145; 3 Chit. PI. 599.

NE UNQUES EXECUTOR, pleading. A plea by which the party who uses it denies that the plaintiff is an executor, as he claims to be; or that the defendant¹¹ is executor, as the plaintiff in his declaration charges him to be. 1 Chit. Pl. 484; 1 Saund. 274, n. 3; Coin. Dig. Pleader, 2 D, 2 2 Chit. PI. 498.

NE UNQUES SEISIE QUIZ DOWER, pleading. A plea by which a defendant denies the right of a widow who sues for, and demands her dower in lands, &c., late of her husband, because the husband was not, on the day of her marriage with him, or any time afterwards, seised of such estate, so that she could be endowed -of the game. See 2 Saund. 329; 10 Went. 159; 3 Chitt. Pl. 598, and the authorities there cited.

NE UNQUES SON RECEIVER, pleading. The name of a plea in an action of account render, by which the defendant affirms that he never was receiver of tlie plaintiff. 12 Vin. Ab. 183.

NE VARIETUR. These words, which literally¹² signify that it be not varied¹³ or changed, are sometimes written by notaries¹⁴ public upon bills or notes, for the purpose of identifying them. This does not destroy their negotiability. 8 Wheat. 338.