Nisi
Ni´si
| conj. | 1. | Unless; if not; - used mostly in law.| Nisi prius | | (Law) unless before; - a phrase applied to terms of court, held generally by a single judge, with a jury, for the trial of civil causes. The term originated in a legal fiction. An issue of fact being made up, it is, according to the English practice, appointed by the entry on the record, or written proceedings, to be tried by a jury from the county of which the proceedings are dated, at Westminster, unless before the day appointed (nisi prius) the judges shall have come to the county in question (which they always do) and there try the cause. See In banc, under Banc. |
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NISI. This word is frequently used in legal proceedings to denote that
something has been done, which is to be valid unless something else Shall be
done within a certain time to defeat it. For example, an order may be made
that if on the day appointed to show cause, none be shown, an injunction
will be dissolved of course, on motion, and production of an affidavit of
service of the order. This is called an order nisi. Ch. Pr. 547. Under the
compulsory arbitration law of Pennsylvania, on the filing of the award,
judgment nisi is to be entered: which judgment is to be as valid as if it
had been rendered on the verdict of a jury, unless an appeal be entered
within the time required by the law.
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