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They were to be married the instant the injured husband obtained his decree absolute. The State sanctioned the re-marriage of the divorced if the Churches did not. Their church should thenceforwards be the State. But there was no decree nisi even, the injured husband possessing a legal heir by a previously-deceased wife. Besides, in a cold way it gave him pleasure to think of that purpose foiled.
Can we then say any less than a pope said before us: Non est tutum quemlibet contra juramentum suum venire, nisi tale sit, quod servatum vergat in interitum salutis æternæ?
Facts do not often exactly repeat themselves in practice; but cases with comparatively small variations from each other do. A judge who has long sat at nisi prius ought gradually to acquire a fund of experience which enables him to represent the common sense of the community in ordinary instances far better than an average jury.
"I told you I dropped my pen," said Sam coldly. "And of course you couldn't read without that! Well, as a matter of fact, this has nothing to do with Nisi what you said." "I have not specialised exclusively on Nisi Prius Evidence. I know the law in all its branches." "Then what would you do if a man insisted on playing the orchestrion when you wanted to get to sleep?" "The orchestrion?" "Yes."
Gravediggers in Hamlet. Shows the profound knowledge of the human heart. Daren't joke about the dead for two years at least. De mortuis nil nisi prius. Go out of mourning first. Hard to imagine his funeral. Seems a sort of a joke. Read your own obituary notice they say you live longer. Gives you second wind. New lease of life. How many have-you for tomorrow? the caretaker asked.
On one side rose a square, narrow turret, surmounted by a gilt dome and quaint weathercock, below the architrave of which was a sun-dial, set in the stonework; and another dial stood in the garden, with the common and beautiful motto, "Non numero horas, nisi serenas!"* * "I number not the hours, unless sunny." On the other side of the bay window a huge buttress cast its mass of shadow.
"I am surprised " she began, and then the Senator politely but firmly interfered. "Ladies," he said, "'De mortuis nisi bonum, which is to say it isn't customary to slang corpses, especially, as you may say, in their presence.
The best of judges may commit the gravest of errors amid the hurry and confusion of a nisi prius term; and the wrong Miss Anthony has suffered ought to be charged to the vicious system which denies to those convicted of offenses against the laws of the United States a hearing before the court of last resort a defect it is equally within the power and the duty of Congress speedily to remedy.
Is it given out of compliment to the dead or the living?" "Nay," said the Deacon, "I don't see how it could be much of a compliment to the dead." "Except upon the principle, De mortuis nil, nisi bone 'em!" suggested Miss Hurribattle, with such perfect gravity that neither Miss Prowley nor the clergyman suspected the jocular atrocity that was hidden in her speech.
He took her there as if she belonged there and she felt that she did, though she protested, feebly: "You are not unmarried yet." They were in that No-Man's-Land. She was neither maid, wife, nor widow, but divorcee. He was neither bachelor, husband, nor widower; he was not even a divorce. He was a Nisi Prius.
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