Nolle Prosequi
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
In practice
An en try made on the record, by which the prose, cutor or plaintiff declares that he will proceed no further. It was formerly used in both civil and criminal proceedings, but in the former is now superseded by the practice of discontinuance.