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  • NOVAE NARRATIONES
    New counts. The collection called "Nova Narrationes" contains pleadings in actions during the reign of Edward III. It consists principally of declarations, as the title imports; but there are sometimes pleas and subsequent pleadings. Tne Artieuli ad Novas Narrationes is usually subjoined to this little book, and 1& a small More...
  • NOVALE
    Land newly plowed and converted into tillage, and which has not been tilled before within the memory of man; also fallow land.
  • NOVALIS
    in the civil law. Land that rested a year after the flrst plowing. Dig. 50, 16, 30, 2. Novatio non prsesnmitnr. Novation is pot presumed. Halk. Lat. Max. 109.
  • NOVATION
    Novation is the substitution of a new debt or obligation for an existing one. Civ. Code Cal. ? 1530; Civ. Code Dak. | 863; Hard v. Burton, 62 Vt. 314, 20 Atl. 269; McCartney v. Kipp, 171 Pa. 644, 33 Atl. 233; McDonnell v. Alabama Gold L, Ins. Co., 85 More...
  • NOVEL ASSIGNMENT
    See NEW ASSIGNMENT.
  • NOVEL DISSEISIN
    See ASSISE or NOVEL DISSEISIN.
  • NOVELLAE, (OR NOVELLAE CONSTITUTIONES)
    New constitutions; generally translated in English, "Novels." The Latin name of those constitutions which were issued by Justinian after the publication of his Code; most of them being originally written in Greek. After his death, a collection of 168 Novels was made, 154 of which had been Issued by Justinian, More...
  • NOVELLAE LEONIS
    The ordinances of the Emperor Leo, which were made from the year 887 till the year 893, are so called. These'Novels changed many rules of the Jus-' tlnian law. This collection contains 113 Novels, written originally in Greek, and afterwards, in I860, translated Into Latin by Agil-reus. Mackeld. Rom. Law, More...
  • NOVELS
    The title given in English to the New Constitutions (Novellae Constituiones) of Justinian and his successors, now forming a part of the Gorpus Juris CivUto. See NOVELLAE.
  • NOVELTY
    An objection to a patent or claim for a patent on the ground that the invention is not new or original is called an objection "for want of novelty".
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