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  • 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."
  • NOXA
    Lat In the civil law. This term denoted any damage or injury done to persons or property by an unlawful act committed by a man's slave or animal. An action for damages lay against the master or owner, who, however, might escape further responsibility by delivering up the offending; agent More...
  • NOXAL ACTION
    An action for damage done by slaves or irrational animals. . Sandars, Just Inst (5th Ed.) 457.
  • NOXALIS ACTIO
    Lat In the civil law. An action which lay against the master of a slave, for some offense (as theft or robbery) committed .or damage or injury done by the slave, which was called "noxa." Usually translated "noxal action."
  • NOXIA
    Lat In the civil law. An offense committed or damage done by a slave. Inst 4, 8, 1.
  • NOXIOUS
    Hurtful; offensive; offensive to the smell. Rex v. White, 1 Burrows, 337. The word "noxious" includes the complex idea both of insalubrity and offenslveness. Id.
  • NUBILIS
    Lat In the civil law. Marriageable; one who is of a proper age to be married.
  • NUCES COLLIGERE
    Lat To collect nuts. This was formerly onef of the works or services imposed by lords upon their inferior tenants. Paroch. Antiq. 495. Nuda paotio oblinationem aos parlt. A naked agreement i. e., without consideration] does not beget an obligation. Dig. 2, 14, 7, 4; Broom, Max. 746.
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