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Noncustodial parent
Noncustodial parent: the separated or divorced parent without primary physical custody, typically paying child support and exercising parenting time. Covers US custody terminology, federal support guidelines, and the rise of shared placement.
Nonpartisan elections of state supreme court justices
Nonpartisan elections of state supreme court justices are elections in which candidates run without party labels on the ballot, first used in Cook County, Illinois, in 1873.
Noose
Noose: a tightening rope loop, best known as the hangman's ligature in judicial hanging. Covers the long-drop mechanism, 9,322 U.S. hangings 1608–2002, botched hangings, and use in Iran, Japan, Taiwan.
Nora B. Fischer
Nora B. Fischer, also known as Nora Barry Fischer, is an American jurist serving as a senior United States district judge for the Western District of Pennsylvania since 2019.
Nora Dannehy
Nora Dannehy is an American lawyer serving as an associate justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court since 2023, previously the first woman U.S. Attorney for Connecticut.
Norberto Bobbio
Norberto Bobbio (1909–2004) was an Italian philosopher, jurist, and political scientist who taught in Turin, founded Italian analytical legal positivism, and served as a senator for life from 1984.
Nordic family law
Nordic family law is the family law of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden, governing marriage, cohabitation, parental responsibility, and maintenance in the five states.
Nordic Journal of International Law
Nordic Journal of International Law (Nordisk tidsskrift for international ret) is a Brill | Nijhoff peer-reviewed international law journal, founded 1930 by Erik Bruel, ISSN 0902-7351, Scopus Q2, CiteScore 2.2.
Norma McCorvey
Norma McCorvey (1947–2017), pseudonym Jane Roe, was the plaintiff in Roe v. Wade (1973). She later converted to anti-abortion activism, then said in AKA Jane Roe (2020) it was a paid act.
Norman Bentwich
Norman Bentwich (1883–1971) was a British barrister and legal academic who served as the first Attorney-General of Mandatory Palestine from 1920 to 1931, then held the chair of international relations at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Norman K. Moon
Norman K. Moon, born 1936 in Lynchburg, Virginia, is a senior U.S. district judge for the Western District of Virginia, appointed by President Clinton in 1997.
Norrmalmstorg robbery
Norrmalmstorg robbery (Norrmalmstorgsdramat): six-day 1973 Kreditbanken hostage siege in Stockholm by Jan-Erik Olsson and Clark Olofsson; origin of the 'Stockholm syndrome' label, later disputed by research and hostage testimony.
Norte del Valle Cartel
Norte del Valle Cartel (Cartel del Norte del Valle), Colombian cocaine trafficking organization based in northern Valle del Cauca that dominated the trade after the Cali cartel's 1995 fall, exporting over 500 metric tons of cocaine to the US before its 1994-2011 collapse.
Norteños
Norteños (Spanish for "northerners") are Hispanic street gangs in Northern and Central California aligned with the Nuestra Familia prison gang in opposition to the Sureños.
North Korea–Russia border
The North Korea–Russia border is a 17–19 km stretch of the Tumen River between Rason and Khasan, with a rail bridge at Tumangang and a road bridge opened in 2026.
North Side Gang
North Side Gang: Prohibition-era Irish-led Chicago crime organization north of the Chicago River, rival of Al Capone; led by Dean O'Banion (murdered 1924), attacked Cicero in 1926, and lost seven members in the 1929 St. Valentine's Day massacre.
Northern Catalonia
Northern Catalonia (Catalunya Nord): Catalan-speaking territory of Roussillon, Conflent, Vallespir, Capcir and part of Cerdanya ceded by Spain to France in the 1659 Treaty of the Pyrenees, now Pyrénées-Orientales.
Northern Territory Civil and Administrative Tribunal
NTCAT, the Northern Territory Civil and Administrative Tribunal, established October 2014, reviews administrative decisions and hears civil disputes including tenancy and small claims up to $25,000, replacing over 35 ad hoc review bodies.
Norway–Russia border
The Norway–Russia border, also called the Norwegian-Russian or Storskog border, is a 197.7 km Arctic land border established by the 1826 St. Petersburg convention, crossed only at Storskog–Borisoglebsk and patrolled by the Garrison in Sør-Varanger.
Norway–Russia maritime boundary treaties (Barents Sea)
The Norway–Russia maritime boundary treaties are agreements delimiting the Barents Sea and Arctic Ocean between Norway and Russia, culminating in the 2010 treaty signed in Murmansk.
Norway–Sweden border
Norway–Sweden border: the roughly 1,630 km land frontier (Europe's longest between two countries), fixed by the 1751 Treaty of Strömstad, marked by stone cairns, a customs border since Norway is outside the EU, and open to travel under Schengen.
Norwood C. Tilley, Jr.
Norwood C. Tilley, Jr. is an American jurist, a senior United States district judge for the Middle District of North Carolina, appointed by President Ronald Reagan in 1988.
Not proven
Not proven: former third criminal verdict unique to Scottish juries (guilty, not guilty, not proven), an acquittal identical in legal effect to not guilty but implying insufficient proof. Abolished from 1 January 2026 under the Victims, Witnesses, and Justice Reform (Scotland) Act 2025, with a two-thirds conviction majority.
Notary
Notary: a legally authorized officer authenticating documents and signatures. Two models exist: civil law notaries who draft binding instruments, and common law notary publics who witness signatures; digital notarization now operates in the Philippines and Nigeria.
Notary public
Notary public: state-appointed impartial witness who attests signatures, administers oaths, and takes acknowledgments and jurats; certifies identity and due execution, not document truth. US notary versus civil-law notaire; bonds, journals, fees, remote notarization.
Nothing to hide argument
The nothing to hide argument claims surveillance threatens only wrongdoers, so innocent people need not fear it. Critiqued by Daniel Solove as conflating privacy with secrecy; countered by Richards and Snowden.
Notice period
Notice period: the advance warning a party must give before ending an employment or tenancy contract. UK statutory scales run from 1 week to 12 weeks; the US has none under at-will employment.
Nottebohm case
Nottebohm (Liechtenstein v. Guatemala) is the ICJ's 1955 judgment originating the genuine link doctrine: nationality valid under domestic law does not support diplomatic protection against another state absent a real, effective connection between person and state.
Novation
Novation (Latin novatio) is a contract-law mechanism that extinguishes an old obligation and replaces it with a new one, often substituting a new party who takes over both rights and duties while the departing party is released, unlike assignment or delegation.
November Criminals (film)
November Criminals is a 2017 American crime drama directed by Sacha Gervasi, starring Ansel Elgort and Chloë Grace Moretz, based on Sam Munson's novel.