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Home Dictionary Name: nisi Page: 2 Page 2 of about 67 results (0.002 seconds)Record of Nisi Prius
Record of Nisi Prius, a transcript of the pleadings and issue was formerly made on parchment for the use of the Court on the trial of the action....
Quod est ex necessitate nunquam introducitur, nisi quando necessarium
Quod est ex necessitate nunquam introducitur, nisi quando necessarium (2 Rol. Rep. 512), what is introduced of necessity is never introduced except when necessary....
Quando mulier nobilis nupserit ignobili desinit esse nobilis nisi nobilitas nata fuit
Quando mulier nobilis nupserit ignobili desinit esse nobilis nisi nobilitas nata fuit (4 Rep. 118), when a noble woman marries a man not noble, she ceases to be noble, unless her nobility was born with her....
Parum est latum esse sententiam nisi mandetur executioni
Parum est latum esse sententiam nisi mandetur executioni [Lat.], it is not enough that sentence be given unless it be carried to execution....
Veritas nihil veretur nisi abscondi
Veritas nihil veretur nisi abscondi (9 Rep. 20), truth fears nothing but concealment....
Nihil pr'scribitur nisi quod possidetur
Nihil pr'scribitur nisi quod possidetur. Lord Hale, De Jure Maris, 32, (Nothing is prescribed except what is possessed.)...
Libertas est naturalis facultas ejus quod cuique facere libet, nisi quod de jure aut vi prohibetur
Libertas est naturalis facultas ejus quod cuique facere libet, nisi quod de jure aut vi prohibetur. Co. Litt. 116.-(Liberty is that natural faculty which permits every one to do anything he pleases except that which is restrained by law or force.)...
Judgment nisi
Judgment nisi, means a provisional judgment that, while not final or absolute, may become final on a party's motion, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 847....
Incivile est, nisi tota sententia inspecta, de aliqua parte judicare
Incivile est, nisi tota sententia inspecta, de aliqua parte judicare. Hob. 171, (It is improper to judge of any part unless the whole sentence be examined.)...
Actus non facit reum, nisi mens sit rea.
Actus non facit reum, nisi mens sit rea. 3 Inst. 307; Co. Litt. 247 b.--(An act does not make a man guilty, unless there be guilty intention.) This is one of the most important rules of criminal law. 'As a general rule of our law, a guilty mind is an essential ingredient of crime, and this rule ought to be borne in mind in construing all penal statutes', Broom's Leg. Max. Applied by 9 Judges to 5 in Reg. v. Tolson, (1889) 23 QBD 168, so as to acquit on trial for bigamy a woman reasonably believing her first husband (whom she had lost sight of for less than 7 years) to be dead; see the elaborate judgment of Stephen, J., pp. 184 et seq., who, however, described the maxim as most unfortunate and misleading. An intention to offend against the penal provisions of a statute constitutes mens rea (Bank of New South Wales v. Piper, 1897 AC 383).The trend of modern legislation in regard to the health or security of the public is to attach the offence to the person who possesses, at least hypothe...
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