Nolle

I. To be unwilling; to will not to do a thing; to refuse to do a thing. Nolle prosequi, ab. nol. pros.: will not prosecute; the name of an entry made by a plaintiff, where he wishes to discontinue the action, either wholly, or as to some of the counts of his declaration, or as to some of several defendants; a proceeding on an indictment by which the prosecuting officer agrees to prosecute no farther, either as to the whole or as to some particular part of the indictment