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non-ˈuser Law.
Also 8 erron. -usure.
[non- 1.]
Neglect to use a right, by which it may become void. Also transf.
1650Abridgm. Coke's Rep. ix. 340 Admitting that he cannot make a Deputy, this Non user is no cause of forfeiture. 1691T. H[ale] Acc. New Invent. 89 Whose so long Non-user of their power [etc.]. 1709J. Johnson Clergym. Vade M. ii. cv, Unless they [sc. Canons] be antiquated by a long non-usure. 1768Blackstone Comm. III. xvii. 263 A writ of quo warranto..lies..in case of non-user or long neglect of a franchise. 1844Williams Real Prop. (1877) 459 The rights above mentioned may be lost by abandonment, of which non-user for twenty years or upwards is sufficient evidence. 1862Marsh Lect. Eng. Lang. viii. 179 The mere non-user of a word is not likely to be noticed until it has been so long out of currency that [etc.]. 1885Law Rep. 14 Q.B. Div. 203 Such power could not be lost by mere non-user. |