Nihil dat qui non hahet

He gives nothipg who has nothing. NIHIL DE RE ACCRESCIT El QUI NIHIL in re quando jus accresceret habet. Nothing accrues to him who, when the right accrues, has nothing in the subject matter. Co. Litt. 188. NIHIL DICIT (Lat. he says nothing). The name of the judgment rendered against a defendant who fails to put in a plea or answer to the plaintiff's declaration by the day assigned. In such a case, judgment is given against the defendant of course, as he says nothing why it should not. See 15 Viner, Abr. 556; Dane, Abr. Index. NIHIL EST ENIM LIBERALE QUOD non Idem justum. For there is nothing generous which is not at the same time just. 2 Kent, Comm. 441, note (a). NIHIL EST iVIAGIS RATIONI CONSENtaneum quam eodem modo quodque dissolvere quo conflatum est. Nothing Is more consonant to reason than that everything should be dissolved in the same way in which it was made. Shep. Touch. 323. NIHIL FACIT ERROR NOIVIINIS CUIVl DE corpore constat. An error in the name is nothing when there is certainty as to the thing. 11 Coke, 21; 2 Kent, Comm. 292. NIHIL HABET (Lat. he has nothing). The name of a return made by a sheriff, marshal, or other proper officer, to a scire facias or other writ, when he has not been able to serve it on the defendant. 5 Whart. (Pa.) 367. Two returns of nihil are, in general, equivalent to a service. Yelv. 112; 1 Cow.