Annotations to James Joyce's Ulysses/Cyclops/310

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Decree nisi     (Latin) A legal term from the Latin nisi (unless), denoting a court order that will become absolute at a specified date unless cause can be shown why it should not.[1] In British law the term is most commonly applied to the initial stage of divorce proceedings, the divorce becoming absolute six months later. J. J. O'Molloy, a solicitor, is jocosely suggesting that the adultery of Derbforgaill and her paramour Diarmait Mac Murchada might have been used by her husband Tigernán Us Ruairc as grounds for a divorce.

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  1. Gifford (1988) 348.
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