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NIHIL HABET.

Legal Term: NIHIL HABET.
Definition: The name of a return made by a sheriff, marshal, or other proper officer, to a scire facia.9 or other writ, when he Ims not been able to, serve it on the defendant. 5 Whart. 367.

2. Two returns of nihil are in general equivalent to a service. Yelv. 112; 1 Cowen, 70; 1 Car. Law Regags. 491; 4 Blackf. 188; 2 Binn. 40.





***All definitions are taken from the 1856 Edition of Bouviers Law Dictionary

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