decree nisi
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A decree nisi was due to be granted in March 2021.
From BBC ● Mar. 17, 2022
His children cried, last August, when he announced he would be leaving, when he filed the paperwork to complete his decree nisi, and that was enough to persuade him to stay.
From New York Times ● Aug. 5, 2021
And it replaces the terms "decree nisi" and "decree absolute" with "conditional order" and "final order".
From BBC ● Jun. 8, 2020
In that year, too, the affadavit of his decree nisi ending his marriage with Frost was sent from the high court to a tabloid before it reached him.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 3, 2013
It seemed to him useless to speak to her of the High Court, five hundred miles away, and a decree nisi; it would have been a mockery of her trouble.
From The Soul of a People by H. (Harold) Fielding
