Nient Dedire

To say nothing.

These words are used to signify that judgment be rendered ag@ a party, because he does not deny the cause of action, i. e. by default.

When a fair and impartial trial cannot be had in the county where the venue is laid, the practice in the English courts is, on an affidavit of the eirculustances, to change it in transitory actions; or in local actions they will give leave to enter a suggestion on the roll, with a nient dedire, in order to have the trial in another country.
   

This entry contains material from Bouvier's Legal Dictionary, a work published in the 1850's.