Decree ___ (legal term)

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NISI

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Used 13 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2012; first recorded in 1995. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for NISI

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• Unless, in law - used 29 times, most recently in 2017
• Unless: Lat. - used 29 times, most recently in 1982
• Not yet final, in law - used 23 times, most recently in 2023
• Not yet final, legally - used 15 times, most recently in 2021
• Not final, in law - used 10 times, most recently in 2014
• Not yet final, at law - used 9 times, most recently in 2016
• Decree ___. - used 8 times, most recently in 1983
• "Nil ___ bonum" - used 8 times, most recently in 1996
• Not yet final, as a decree - used 8 times, most recently in 2015
• Legalese for "unless" - used 7 times, most recently in 2015
• Unless: Latin. - used 7 times, most recently in 2007
• Unless, in court - used 6 times, most recently in 2015

Related clues

Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.

• Legal claim - LIEN, used 148 times
• Legal wrong - TORT, used 140 times
• Nautical term. - ALEE, used 125 times
• Decree - FIAT, used 121 times
• Legal document - WRIT, used 56 times
• Legal order - WRIT, used 46 times

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