Nul Tiel Record

No such record When a party claims to recover on the evidence of a record, as in an action on scire facias, or when he sets up his defence on matter of record, as a former acquittal or former recovery, the opposite party may plead or reply nul tiel record, there is no such record; in which case the issue thus raised is called an issue of nul tiel record and it is tried by the court by the inspection of the record.
   

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