210, 6 Pac. 816; Keiser v. Smith, 71

243; Halbert v. Alford (Tex.) 16 8S. W. 814.

285, 21 Pac. 483; Savannah v. Kelly, 108 U. 8. 184, 2 Sup. Ct. 468, 27 L. Ed. 696;

412; St. Louis Smelting & Refining Co. v.

486.—Nihil est. There is nothing. A form of return made by a sheriff when he has been unable to serve the writ. “Although non est inventus is the more frequent return in such a case, yet it is by no means as full an answer to the command of the writ as is the return of nihil, That amounts to an averment that the defendant has nothing in the bailiwick, no dwelling-house, no family, no residence, and no personal presence to enable the officer to make the service required by the act of assembly. It is therefore a full answer to the exigency of the writ.” Sherer v. Easton Bank, 33 Pa. 139. —Nihil habet. He has nothing. The name of a return made by a sheriff to a acire factas or other writ which he has been unable to serve on the defendant. :

388, 26 Pac. 556, 25 Am. St. Rep. 279;