JUSTICES OF NISI PRIUS, are now the same with justices of assize. It is a common adjournment of a cause in the common pleas to put it off to such a day, Nisi prius justitiorum venerint ad eas partes ad capiendos assisas: from which clause of adjournment they are called justices of nisi prius, as well as justices of assize, on account of writ and actions they have to deal in.