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How to use nisi in a sentence

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Last year, 3,347 decrees nisi were granted in the circuit court, with two-thirds of applications being taken by women.
Now that pension sharing has arrived, the court can split a pension on the decree nisi and hand part of it to one spouse.
The draft order nisi that has been filed specifies five grounds on which the respondents are to be called on to show cause.
Certainly, insofar as the order nisi seeks writs of mandamus and certiorari, it is outside of the time limit.
This Court will not hear applications for orders nisi comprising three Justices.
Costs of the matter will be costs in the special leave application and in the summons for the order nisi.
Perhaps if I can hand up to your Honour a chronology that I prepared in the matter and also an amended draft order nisi.
The part-time television presenter was given a decree nisi at the High Court's family division last week.
The couple, expecting their decree nisi next month, have drifted apart in recent months.
But at page 253 Justice Sheller proposed an order making absolute the order nisi for certiorari.
The garnishee order nisi was not made absolute and the proceedings founded on it were stayed.
What I submitted, and I would like to just clarify it, is that you cannot make an order nisi absolute, in my submission.
A debt can be garnished by a judgment creditor if it is accrued and payable at the time the order nisi is made.
Looking at the order nisi that I seek amended, whether I have an arguable case here is the question, is it not?
In normal circumstances divorce attracts little media publicity and in many countries the print media only carry it in the decree nisi column.
So the amended decrees nisi in each case would appear to be defectively drawn.
Then, if the case stated were satisfactory, the order nisi could be granted on that day.
It does, in my argument or my submission, give rise to a proper application for an order nisi for mandamus.
I do not think you can even grant an order nisi if the privative clause operates, can you?
The couple were granted a decree nisi by District Judge Penny Cushing at the Principal Registry of the High Court's Family Division in London.
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Examples from Classical Literature
In special cases the court has power to make the decree absolute before the expiration of six months after the decree nisi.
No man shall marry until he be 25, no woman till she be 20, nisi alitur dispensatum fuerit.
That was made at nisi prius in answer to a motion for a nonsuit in an action brought for an infringement of a patent right.
The time-honoured alliance of dulness and respectability has had its decree nisi from the American press.
In due course he obtained his decree nisi, which later on was made absolute.
In 1842 she returned to England, and shortly afterwards her husband obtained a decree nisi for divorce.
How this was arranged I do not know, but the decree nisi and the decree absolute were granted without any difficulties arising.
In Scotland there is no decree nisi, no decree absolute, and no intervention by the King's Proctor.
In this little paper let us keep to the text of nil nisi bonum.
Unfortunately, he died before the decree nisi was made absolute.
He was great both at nisi prius and before an appellate tribunal.
The moment the decree nisi was pronounced he left the Courts of Justice.
You get a decree nisi, and once more the Court tries to make me come back.
Your face, with that expression on it, is a decree nisi with costs.
This again is undefended and the decree nisi goes as of course.
The 42S-year-old was granted a decree nisi from art dealer Jay Jopling by a judge at the High Court's family division in central London.
We obtained our Decree Nisi some 18 months ago, and I have been told that I cannot make the application now.
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