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Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Nisi priusnoun
In law. A judicial writ, which lieth in case where the inquest is panelled, and returned before the justices of the bank; the one party or the other making petition to have this writ for the ease of the country. It is directed to the sheriff, commanding that he cause the men impanelled to come before the justices in the same county, for the determining of the cause there, except it be so difficult that it need great deliberation: in which case, it is sent again to the bank. It is so called from the first words of the writ nisi apud talem locum prius venerint; whereby it appeareth, that justices of assizes and justices of nisi prius, differ. So that justices of nisi prius, must be one of them before whom the cause is depending in the bench, with some other good men of the county associated to him. John Cowell
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Nisi prius
Nisi prius is a historical term in English law. In the nineteenth century, it came to be used to denote generally all legal actions tried before judges of the King's Bench Division and in the early twentieth century for actions tried at assize by a judge given a commission. Used in that way, the term has had no currency since the abolition of assizes in 1971. Nisi prius is a common legal term in the United States, however. As the term's Latin meaning indicates, the term "[court of] nisi prius" denotes the court or tribunal that originally decided a case or an interlocutory matter rather than a higher court being appealed to. In that sense, at least, it serves as a synonym for "court of original jurisdiction."
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of nisi prius in Chaldean Numerology is: 3
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of nisi prius in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8
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