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  • NOTOUR
    In Scotch law. Open; notorious. A notour bankrupt is a debtor who, being under diligence by horning and caption of his creditor, retires to sanctuary or absconds or defends by force, arid is afterwards found insolvent by the court of session. Bell. Nova eonstitntio futuris formam im-ponere debet non prssteritis. More...
  • NOVA OUSTUMA
    The name of an im-positipn or duty. See ANTIQUA CUSTUMA.
  • NOVA STATUTA
    o New statutes. An appellation sometimes given to the statutes which have been passed since the beginning of the reign of Edward III; 1 Steph. Comm. 68.
  • 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...
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