Onerare
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence · Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
To charge or burden. Onerari non. Not to be charged. The name of a plea in an action of debt, by which the defendant alleges that he ought not to be charged with the indebtedness.
Oneratur nisi
He is charged, unless. This is the name of an entry formerly made in the English exchequer, upon the sheriff's entering his accounts for issues, amercements, &c.; the full form being oneratur nisi habeat sufficientem exonerationem, — he is charged, unless he may have a sufficient discharge. The entry was usually abbreviated to O. Ni. It was the course of the exchequer, as soon as the sheriff entered into and made up his account for issues, amerciaments, &c., to mark upon each head O. Ni., which denoted oneratur nisi habeat sufficientem exonerationem, and presently he became the king's debtor, and a debet was set upon his head; whereupon the parties paravail became debtors to the sheriff, and were discharged against the king, &c. But sheriffs now account to the commissioners for auditing the public accounts.
Wharton.