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Adnichiled

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Annulled; cancelled; made void. ADNIHILARE (Law Lat. from ad, to, and nihil, nothing).

In old English law

To reduce to nothing; to treat as nothing; to hold as or for nought; to avoid. Fleta, lib.

2, c. 63, § 1.

Adnichile is used in St. 28 Hen. VIII. c. 7, and adnichilate by old English writers. Rich. Diet. ADNOTATIO (Lat notare). A subscription or signing. In the civil law, casual homicide was excused by the indulgence of the emperor, signed with his own sign manual, called adnotatio.

Code, 9. 16. 5; 4 Sharswood, Bl. Comm. 187.