The nisi prius clause, however, was not then introduced for the first time.
This is their largest commission; (2) of nisi prius (q.
The next step will probably be the trial at Nisi Prius"--that was, the trial of the matter of fact as to the exact hour of issuing the writ, which had still to be proved by oral evidence before a jury.
Peters had at the time blusterously denied this, but had declined Bradlaugh's challenge to a formal investigation before an arbitrator as at nisi prius.
A Nisi Prius cause is a new drama, brought before the jury as the audience; but with this great difference between a play and a cause—the actors in it, on one side only, are interested in its success.
In fact, as a nisi prius leader he was unrivalled, as well in stating as in arguing a case, as well in examining as cross-examining a witness.
Mr. Wetmore was a lawyer of standing in St. John, who was considered to be one of the best nisi prius advocates at the bar, and who carried the methods of the bar largely into his politics.
In the opinion of the legal profession he never was a deeply read lawyer, either as a barrister or as a judge, but in the conduct of a case atnisi prius he could hardly have been surpassed.
This is worn by the Judges at Nisi Prius and by the Judges of the local Courts, but this wig was not originally forensic, as it appears in the portrait of Mr. Beaumont, a London attorney of the reign of George II.
At present the junior counsel for the plaintiff, in a Nisi Prius cause, shortly states the effect of the pleadings.
Ruminating over this, he hastened on to a nisi prius case.
As a lawyer, he is at home in the grave and studied discussions at banc, and in the showy and extemporaneous contests at nisi prius.
His mind was too broad, his ambition too high, to be a mere lawyer, tied down with red tape to nisi prius precedents and the dicta of cases.
Hall put down upstartism like a judge atnisi prius rebuking a shallow barrister for contempt of court.
River Ribble; and to regulate fees in trials and assizes at nisi prius," &c.
If you want to know the English law of book-debts, you will have to look for it under the head of Assumpsit in a treatise on Nisi Prius, while a lawyer of Scotland would unblushingly use the word itself, and put it in his index.
Nisi Prius are the first words on certain legal records, where an issue is appointed to be tried by a jury from the county, unless before the day appointed (nisi prius) the judges shall have come to the county in question.
The judges of assize, by virtue of their commission of nisi prius, try the causes thus appointed.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "nisi prius" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
