💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Rule nisi"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| decree nisinoun | (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. |
| decree absolutenoun | (law) the official decree marking the legal end of a marriage, allowing the two people to remarry. |
| rulenoun | A regulation, law, guideline. |
| final decreenoun | A final judgment. |
| rule of decisionnoun | (law) A legal authority (e.g., a statute or judicial precedent) that governs the resolution of a particular case. |
| ratio decidendinoun | (law) The legal principle or rationale on which a judicial decision is based. |
| declaratory judgmentnoun | (law) A ruling of a court in a civil case which declares the rights, duties, or obligations of each party in a dispute, but does not necessarily award any damages or other relief. |
| res judicatanoun | (law) The legal doctrine that claims that a case already decided in a proceeding may not be brought in any later proceeding. |
| court ordernoun | (law) A legally binding directive issued by a judge or authorized judicial officer that requires an individual or an entity to fulfill or perform specific actions or refrain from certain behaviors. |
| rule of lawnoun | (law, often capitalized) The doctrine that no individual is above the law and that everyone must answer to it. |
| liquid documentnoun | (law) A document on which summary judgment or provisional sentence may be granted. |
| interlocutornoun | A person who takes part in dialogue or conversation: a locutive partner. |
| rule of recognitionnoun | (law) A notion of what should "count" as law. |
| lex latanoun | (law) The law as it is. |
| holdingverb | Something that one owns, especially stocks and bonds. |
| question of lawnoun | (law) An issue to be decided by the judge, concerning the application or interpretation of the law. |
| rectonoun | The front side of a flat object which is to be examined visually, as for reading, such as a sheet, leaf, coin or medal. |
| legitimenoun | (civil law jurisdictions) A portion of a person's estate of which he cannot disinherit that person's children without a legal cause. |
| operative clausenoun | (law) A clause (of a judgment, order, resolution, etc.) which requires anything to be done or not to be done. |
| ultima rationoun | (law) legal philosophy under which penal redress to crime should only be used as a measure of last resort |
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