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nisi (s.xiiiex)

nisi (s.xiiiex)

 
  FEW:  nisi 7,143a Gdf:  nisi 5,500b GdfC: TL: DEAF: DMF:  nisi  TLF: OED:  nisi a.  / nisi prius n.  MED:  nisi prius phr.  DMLBS:  nisi 1916a
ls(loanword: Latin )
le

conj.

nisi prius
lawa judicial writ to a sheriff to summon a jury to Westminster, unless, before this can be done, a general eyre comes to the county
( 1310 )  trové par nisi prius que cesti que graunta la revercion ore par fine avant ceo temps avoit graunté mesme la revercion a un autre  YBB Ed II iv 83
( 1362-66 )  ja tarde par vertu d'un nisi prius pris devant les Justices nostre seignur le Roi a Neofchastiell' par gentz loingteins dé pluis foreins lieus del countee de Northumbr'  Northern Pet 194
( 1383 )  et procés sur ceo continue taunt le nisi prius passa a mesme le jour devant mesme les justices d'assises  Ladbroke 314
( 1401-04; MS: s.xv1 )  ils ount purchasez un nisi prius d'estre tenuz en mesme nostre ville au feste de seint Jake proschein  Lett & Pet 92.4
nisi feceris
lawclause in a writ which gave the King's Court the right to pass judgement should the manorial court fail to do so
( s.xiiiex; MS: s.xiv1/3 )  de ceo vient la clause el brief de droit et nisi feceris vicecomes faciat  Mir Just 11

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