decree nisi

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

See decree + Latin nisi (“unless”).

Noun[edit]

decree nisi (plural decree nisis or decrees nisi)

  1. (law) a decree issued on a first petition for divorce; it becomes absolute at some later date unless cause is shown why it should not.

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