单词 | non est inventus |
释义 | non est inventusphr.n. Law. A. phr. ‘The person is not to be found’: a phrase used by a sheriff in returning a writ, as a statement that the defendant is not to be found in the sheriff's jurisdiction. Cf. non est phr., non inventus phr.In early use often allusively. In quot. 1895 in extended use. The use of Latin in legal proceedings in England and Wales was proscribed by the Civil Procedure Rules 1998. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > process, writ, warrant, or order > [noun] > writ > return of writ > specific answer in return non est inventusc1475 the world > space > place > absence > absent [phrase] non est inventus1590 non inventus1637 non est1832 c1475 Mankind (1969) 781 Ȝe must speke to þe schryue for a cepe [read cape] corpus, Ellys ȝe must be fayn to retorn with non est inventus. 1583 P. Stubbes Anat. Abuses sig. Ki Sheriffes & Officers wil returne writs with a tarde venit, or with a non est inuentus. 1590 R. Greene Neuer too Late i. 56* So long put he his hand into his pursse, that at last the emptie bottome returned him a Writt of Non est inuentus. 1631 T. Heywood Fair Maid of West: 1st Pt. i. 12 It is the commonest thing that can bee for these Captaines to score and to score: but when the scores are to be paid, Non est inventus. 1688 T. Shadwell Squire of Alsatia i. i. 7 I plead to all this matter Non est inventus upon the Pannel. 1726 E. Thomas Poems Several Occasions 124 This I report, non est Inventus. 1780 Chron. in Ann. Reg. 212/1 For having returned a warrant Non est inventus in an action..when in fact the defendent Henwood had been arrested. 1839 T. De Quincey 2nd Paper on Murder in Blackwood's Mag. Nov. 664/2 He inquired after the unfortunate reporter..the answer was..from the under-sheriff of our county—‘non est inventus’. 1860 C. M. Yonge Hopes & Fears (1889) ii. vii. 184 When I got back to my fainting damsel, non est inventus. 1867 J. W. De Forest Miss Ravenel's Conversion xx. 284 I only know..that he is non est inventus. 1895 C. G. Leland Songs of Sea 230 Despite your invention, and learning, and sense, You'll be non est inventus a hundred years hence. 1999 Providence (Rhode Island) Jrnl.-Bull. (Nexis) 8 July 8 e Service of process of said Petition upon the following individuals..has been returned ‘non est inventus’. A statement or writ to the effect that the defendant is not to be found. Obsolete.In quot. 1712 in abbreviated form non est invent. ΚΠ 1649 Perfect Weekly Acct. 8 Aug. 571 This return is made here in the City, the writ not being out this town, and so a non est inventus one after another untill the party is outlawed. 1662 H. P. Cressy (title) A non est inventus return'd to Mr. Edward Bagshaw's enquiry and vainly boasted discovery of weakness in the grounds of the Churches infallibility. 1712 J. Arbuthnot Lewis Baboon iv. ii. 9 Esquire South's Quota for a Return of a Non est invent and nulla habet bona. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < phr.n.c1475 |
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