NE ADMITTAS

ne admittas (nee ad-mit-[schwa]s), n. [Latin “that you admit not”] Eccles. law. A writ prohibiting a bishop, usu. in a quare impedit action, from admitting the other party’s clerk to be a parson of a church. • After a party institutes a quare impedit action to enforce a right to propose a clerk to the […]