from
Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
NIENT DEDIRE. To say nothing.
2. These words are used to signify that judgment be rendered against a
party, because he does not deny the cause of action, i. e. by default.
3. When a fair and impartial trial cannot be had in the county where
the venue is laid, the practice in the English courts is, on an affidavit of
the circumstances, to change it in transitory actions; or in local actions
they will give leave to enter a suggestion on the roll, with a nient dedire,
in order to have the trial in another country. 1 Tidd's Pr. 655, 8th ed.