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Definition :

Nichil, means 'nothing'. A debt owed to the exchequer's officer but nihiled by sheriffs as non-leviable. Once a year, an officer of the cleru of Nichils enrolled there amounts and sent them to the treasurer's remembrancer's office from which process was issued for their recovery.

--To make return that a debt is worthless, because the debter either cannot be found or is unable to pay, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1066.