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Decree nisi

noun
1.
A decree issued on a first petition for divorce; becomes absolute at some later date.






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"Decree nisi" Quotes from Famous Books



... noon next day, and was over in little more than half an hour. Soames—pale, spruce, sad-eyed in the witness-box—had suffered so much beforehand that he took it all like one dead. The moment the decree nisi was pronounced he left ...
— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy



Words linked to "Decree nisi" :   law, edict, order, rescript, fiat, jurisprudence, decree



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