单词 | cause of nisi prius |
释义 | > as lemmascause (also court, justice, record, etc.) of nisi prius 4. The hearing of civil causes by the judges in the Assize Court or (in later British use) Crown Court; court business of this kind. Also in cause (also court, justice, record, etc.) of nisi prius. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > trying or hearing of cause > [noun] > trial > of civil causes nisi prius1543 1543–4 Act 35 Hen. VIII c. 6 An Acte concerninge thapparaunce of Jurors in the Nisi Prius. 1585 in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1846) 3rd Ser. IV. 57 The Lordes Chief Justices of either Benche do twise a weeke attend upon Nisi Prius for London and Middlesex. 1607 J. Cowell Interpreter sig. Pp3v Iustices of Nisi prius, are all one now a daies with Iustices of Assises..yet M. Crompton maketh this difference betweene them, because Iustices of Assise haue power to giue iudgement in a cause, but Iustices of Nisi prius. only to take the verdict..Iustices of Nisi prius haue to deale in causes personall as well as reall, wheras Iustices of Assise..deale only with..Assises. 1629 Vse of Law 24 in J. Doddridge Lawyers Light A commission to take Nisi Prius directed to none but to the Iudges themselues and their Clerkes of Assizes. 1679 Trials Green, Berry, & Hill for Murder of Sir E. Godfrey 87 No Brother, I am to sit at Nisi prius this Afternoon, and 'tis time we broke up the Court. 1709 London Gaz. No. 4508/3 A Postea, or Record of Nisi Prius, between Morris, Plaintiff, and Jordan, Defendant. 1768 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. III. xxiii. 373 A new trial..is now very commonly had for the misdirection of the judge at nisi prius. 1793 Chron. in Ann. Reg. 13/1 The commission for opening the assizes..for the trying of criminals, hearing causes of Nisi prius and for a general gaol delivery. 1840 Penny Cycl. XVI. 241/1 The judges of assize..when sitting alone to try causes..are said to be sitting at Nisi Prius. 1889 F. E. Gretton Memory's Harkback 135 Thus his legal life had been passed in Nisi Prius—he was quite a stranger to Chancery practice. 1949 Dict. National Biogr. 1931–40 at Avory, Sir Horace Edmund He quickly acquired a leading practice in ‘Crown paper’ matters and had a fair share of briefs at nisi prius. 1990 Verbatim 17 7/2 When I was young at the bar I heard with delight an old lawyer..speak grandly of the court of nisi prius.., an utterly obsolete Latinism for the simple trial court. < as lemmas |
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