Nient
A Law Dictionary and Glossary · George C. Kinney · 1893
A Law Dictionary and Glossary
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In old English law
Not; nothing. included. Nient contristeant, nient obstant: Nient culpable: not guilty; the name for the dedire: to deny nothing; to suffer judgment by given to that clause in a suggestion in which fact suggested is not denied. Nient le fait: not formerly given to the general issue of non est meins: nevertheless. Nient nostre fait: not our not seised; the general plea in the writ of annuity. not his deed.