NOTHING

(ATo thing, the negation of being.) In Mathematical language, the term nothing is of frequent occurrence,and denotes either the absence of magnitude in circumstances in which magnitude might have existed, as when equals are taken from equals, or it denotes the limit to which a variable magnitude approaches by continual diminution; as when it is said that a magnitude is susceptible of all values between nothing and infinity. NOTICE, in Law, is that by which a party is supposed to communicate, or to receive, that presumed or real knowledge which is nece ary to affect the receiver with legal liabilities. For instance, when a party proceeds to recover premises by ejectment, notice must be served by him, ac cording to certain prescribed formalities, on the tenant in po e ion, in order to compel him to come in and defend the action. This is an instance of actual notice. Constructive notice is that which is presumed to arise from certain facts: as, for instance, in equity, a purchaser is presumed to have notice of a suit [lending which may af feet the subject matter of the sale, except where, by a late enactment (2 Vict., c. 11), expre notice was rendered nece ary. [s. 849]