Radioactive, hazardous waste products that are produced at the end of the manufacturing cycle of nuclear processes. They are radioactive for hundreds of years and as such safe disposal involves burial deep in the ground or the sea in concrete or metal containers.
Lat Mere sufferance.
Lat. Bare or mere possession. Nnda ratio et nnda pactio non ligant aliqnem debitorem. Naked reason and naked promise do not bind any debtor. Fleta, 1. 2, c. 60,
Naked. This word is applied metaphorically to a variety of subjects to indicate that they are lacking in some essential legal requisite.
Lat. In the civil law. A new work. See Novi OPERIS NUNCIATIO.
a contract where no payments will be made. See nudum pactum.
Lat. A new man. This term is applied to a man who has been par- doned of a crime, and so made, as It were, a “new man.”
Lat. A naked pact; a bare agreement; a promise or undertaking made without any consideration for it Justice v. Lang. 42 N. Y. 493, 1 Am. Rep. 576; Wardell v. Williams, 62 Mich. 50, 28 N. W. 800, 4 Am. St. Rep. 814. Nudum pactum est nbi nulla snbest causa prseter conventionem; sed nbi snbest causa, fit obligatio, et parit actionem. A naked contract is where there Is no consideration except the agreement; but, where there is a consideration, it becomes an obligation and gives a right of action. Plowd. 309; Broom, Max. 745, 750. Nudum pactum ex quo non oritur actio. Nudum pactum is that upon which no action arises. Cod. 2, 3, 10; Id. 5, 14, 1; Broom, Max. 676.
Lat. In the civil law. This term denoted any damage or injury done to persons or property by au unlawful act committed by a man’s slave or animal. An action for damages lay against the master or owner, who, however, might escape further responsibility by delivering up the offending agent to the party injured. “Noxa” was also used as the designation of the offense committed, and of its punishment, and some- times of the slave or animal doing the damage. Noxa sequitur caput. The injury [1. e., liability to make good an Injury caused by a slave] follows the head or person, [f. e., attaches to his master.] Helnecc. Elem. 1. 4, t. 8,
d. 5, 14, 1; Broom, Max. 676. NUEVA RECOPIEACION. (New Compilation.) The title of a code of Spanish law, promulgated in the year 1567. Schm. Civil Law, Introd. 79-81.