Category: N

See ASSISE OF NOVEL DISSEISIN.

fact; the power or authority of a judex; the power of hearing causes and of pronounc- ing sentence, without any degree of jurisdiction. Calvin.

The title given in English to the New Constitutions (Novcllw Constitu- tiones) of Justinian and his successors, now forming a part of the Corpus Juris Civilis. See NOVELL.

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.”

Lat. In the civil law. A step-mother.

Know all men by these presents. Formal words used at the commencement of deeds of release in the Latin forms.

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 neighber in erecting or demolishing any structure, (which was called a “new work.” In such ease, he might go upon the ground, while the work was in progress, and publicly protest against or forbid its completion, in the presence of the workmen or of the owner or his repre- sentative.

In Saxon law. A pecuniary satisfaction for an Injury, amounting to nine times the value of the thing for which It was paid. Spelman.

(Latest Compilation.) The title of a collection of Spanish law compiled by order of Don Carlos IV. in 1805. 1 White, Recop. 355.

Land newly plowed and converted into tillage, and which has not been tilled before within the memory of man; also fallow land.