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  • NOVERCA
    Lat. In the civil law. A step-mother.
  • NOVERINT UNIVERSI PER PRAESENTES
    Know all men by these presents. Formal words used at the commencement of deeds of release in the Latin forms.
  • NOVI OPERIS NUNCIATIO
    Lat Denunciation of, or protest against, a new work. This was a species of remedy in the civil law, available to a person who thought his rights or his property were threatened with injury by the act of his neighbor in erecting or demolishing any structure, (which was called a More...
  • NOVIGILD
    In Saxon law. A pecuniary satisfaction for an injury, amounting to nine times the value of the thing for which it was paid. Spelman.
  • NOVISSIMA RECOPILACION
    (Latest Compilation.) The title of a collection of Spanish law compiled by order of Don Carlos IV. in 1805. 1 White, Recop. 355.
  • NOVITAS
    Lat. Novelty; newness; a new thing. Novitas non tam utilitate prodest qnam novitate pertnrbat. A novelty does not benefit so much by its utility as it disturbs by its novelty. Jenk. Cent p. 167, case 23.
  • NOVITER PERVENTA, OR NOVITER AD NOTITIAM PERVENT A
    In ecclesiastical procedure Facts "newly come" to the knowledge of a party to a cause. Leave to plead facts noviter pervcnta is generally given, in a proper case, even after the pleadings are closed. Thillim. Ecc. Law, 1257; Rog. Ecc. Law, 723.
  • NOVODAMUS
    In old Scotch lav. (We give anew.) The name given to a charter, or clause In a charter, granting a renewal of a right Bell. Novum judieinm mam dat novum Jus, sod doolarat antiquum! quia judieinm est jnris diotum et per judieinm jns est noviter revelatnm qnod din fnit vela~ More...
  • NOVUM OPUS
    Lat In the civil law. A new work. See Novi OPERIS NUNCIACTIO.
  • NOVUS HOMO
    Lat A new man. This term is applied to a man who has been pardoned of a crime, and so made, as it were, a "new man."
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