Nul tiel record
Defined in 4 dictionaries — Case Law, Ballentine's (1916), Black's (1891), Bouvier (1839)
Definitions from Case Law
From 11 U.S. 481 - Mills v. Duryee · 1813Most cited · 185 citing opinions
The pleadings in an action are governed by the dignity of the instrument on which it is founded. If it be a record, conclusive between the parties, it cannot be denied but by the plea of nul tiel record; and when congress gave the effect of a record to the judgment it gave all the collateral consequences.
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
A Dictionary of Law
Henry Campbell Black · 1891
No auch record. <A plea denying the existence of any such record as that alleged by the plaintiff. It is the general plea in an action of debt on a judgment,
A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States
John Bouvier · 1839
pleading. No such record. Whena party claims to recover on the evidence of a record, as in an action on scire fucias, or when he sets up his defence on matter of record, as a former acquittal or former recovery, the opposite party may plead or reply nul tiel record, there is no such record; in which case the issue thus raised is called an issue of nul tiel record, and it 1s tried by the court by the inspection of the record. Vide 1 Saund. 92, n. 3; 12 Vin. Ab. 188; 1 Phil. Ev. 307, 8; Com. Dig. Bail, R 8—Certiorari, A 1— Pleader 2 W 13, 38—Record, C.