non prosequitur

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English

Etymology

Latin, meaning "he does not prosecute".

Phrase

non prosequitur

  1. (law) A judgement entered against the plaintiff in a suit where he/she fails to appear to prosecute.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for non prosequitur”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)