nisi
Speech parts
1. nisi - Noun
2. nisi - Conjunction
3. nisi - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
Unless; if not.
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the decree is nisi and not absolute
The standard common law test of criminal liability is usually expressed in the Latin phrase, actus reus non facit reum nisi mens sit rea, which means "the act is not culpable unless the mind is guilty".
An appeal to quarter sessions is open to the defendant, and a further appeal on questions of law to the King's Bench by rule nisi or certiorari.
The oral arguments for that verdict were persuasive Friday and Saturday nights as the crooning counselors and lampooning lawyers who make up the fictional "Court of Nisi Prius" took the stage.