Nul tiel record

NUL TIEL RECORD, pleading. No such record
2. When a party claims to recover on the evidence of a record, as in an action on scire facias, or when he sets up his defence on matter of record, as a former acquittal or former recovery, the opposite party may plead or, reply nul tiel record, there is no such record; in which case the issue thus raised is called an issue of nul tiel record, and it is tried by the court by the inspection, of the record. Vide 1 Saund. 92, n. 3 12Vin. Ab.188; 1 Phil. Ev. 307,8; Com. Dig. Bail, R. 8 Certiorari, A l Pleader, 2 W 13, 38 Record, C; 2 McLean, 511; 7 Port. 110; 1 Spencer, 114.