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  • 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".
  • 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.
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