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nisi
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nisi as in:  nisi decree

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  • That the decree nisi in the case of Phillotson versus Phillotson and Fawley, pronounced six months ago, has just been made absolute.†  (source)
  • De mortuis nil nisi prius.†  (source)
  • Lawyers of the past, haughty, pleading, beheld pass from the consolidated taxing office to Nisi Prius court Richie Goulding carrying the costbag of Goulding, Collis and Ward and heard rustling from the admiralty division of king's bench to the court of appeal an elderly female with false teeth smiling incredulously and a black silk skirt of great amplitude.†  (source)
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  • —Decree nisi, says J. J. And Bloom letting on to be awfully deeply interested in nothing, a spider's web in the corner behind the barrel, and the citizen scowling after him and the old dog at his feet looking up to know who to bite and when.†  (source)
  • Then the decree nisi and the King's proctor tries to show cause why and, he failing to quash it, nisi was made absolute.†  (source)
  • Then the decree nisi and the King's proctor tries to show cause why and, he failing to quash it, nisi was made absolute.†  (source)
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