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Non prosequitur

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Non prosequitur (also known as non pros.) is a legal judgment "against the plaintiff for a neglect to take any of those steps which it is incumbent on him to take in due time." A non pros judgment is a final judgment, which is only re-opened with cause shown.

References

  1. Black, Henry Campbell (1910). A Law Dictionary Containing Definitions of the Terms and Phrases of American and English Jurisprudence, Ancient and Modern. West Publishing Company.
  2. The American and English Encyclopædia of Law: Must to Oath (1892), p. 717 (accessible on Google Books)


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