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A celebrated law for the security of Protestants, made bJ. Henry IV.. of France, and revoked by Louis XIV., October 2, 1685. NANTISSEMENT, in French law, ls the con1ract of pledge; if of a movable, it is called "gage;" and if of an immovable, it 11 called "antichrese." Brown.. NA;B,R. A common abbreviation of "narratio," (q, 11.) A declaration in an action. Jacob. [s. 808]