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Novel
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NovelCivil law. The name given to some constitutions or laws of some of the Roman emperors; this name was so given because they were new or posterior to the laws which they had before published. The novels were made to supply what bad not been foreseen in the preceding laws, or to amend or alter the laws in force.
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Civil
1) It is used in contradistinction to barbarous or savage, to indicate a state of society reduced to order and regular government; thus we speak of civil life, civil society, civil government, and civil liberty. 2) It is sometimes used in contradistinction to criminal, to indicate the private rights and remedies of men, as members of the community, in contrast to those which are public and relate to the government; thus we speak of civil process and criminal process, civil jurisdiction and criminal jurisdiction.
Law
A rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society. The learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system.
Name
One or more words used to distinguish a particular individual, as Socrates, Benjamin Franklin.
Were
The name of a fine among the Saxons imposed upon a murderer
Amend
To change, to revise, usually to the wording of a written document such as legislation.
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Novel disseisin
The name of an old remedy which was given for a new or recent disseisin.
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 Justinian law. This collection contains one hundred and thirteen novels, written origi- nally in Greek, and afterwards, in 1560, translated into Latin, by Agilaeus. - .
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Notwithstanding
In spite of, even if, without regard to or impediment by other things.
Nova customa
The name of an imposition or duty in England.
Nova statuta
New statutes. The name given to the statutes commencing with the reign of Edward III.
Novae narrationes
The title of an ancient English book, written during the reign of Edward III. It consists of declarations and some other pleadings.
Novation
Civil law. Novation is a substitution of a new for an old debt. The old debt is extinguished by the new one con- tracted in its stead; a novation may be made in three different ways, which form three distinct kinds of novations.
Novel
Novel disseisin
The name of an old remedy which was given for a new or recent disseisin.
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 Justinian law. This collection contains one hundred and thirteen novels, written origi- nally in Greek, and afterwards, in 1560, translated into Latin, by Agilaeus. - .
Novus actus interveniens
A harmful act or omission which occurs subsequent to an initial wrongful act or omission of a tortfeasor and which breaks the chain of causation between that initial act or omission and the ensuing damage.
Novus homo
A new man; -this term, is applied to a man who has been pardoned of a crime, by which he is restored to society, and is rebabilitated.
Noxal actton
Civil law. A personal, arbitrary, and indirect action in favor of one who has been injured by the slave of another, by which the owner or master of the slave was compelled either to pay the damages or abandon the slave.
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Civil
1) It is used in contradistinction to barbarous or savage, to indicate a state of society reduced to order and regular government; thus we speak of civil life, civil society, civil government, and civil liberty. 2) It is sometimes used in contradistinction to criminal, to indicate the private rights and remedies of men, as members of the community, in contrast to those which are public and relate to the government; thus we speak of civil process and criminal process, civil jurisdiction and criminal jurisdiction.
Law
A rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society. The learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system.
Name
One or more words used to distinguish a particular individual, as Socrates, Benjamin Franklin.
Were
The name of a fine among the Saxons imposed upon a murderer
Amend
To change, to revise, usually to the wording of a written document such as legislation.
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Novel disseisin
The name of an old remedy which was given for a new or recent disseisin.
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 Justinian law. This collection contains one hundred and thirteen novels, written origi- nally in Greek, and afterwards, in 1560, translated into Latin, by Agilaeus. - .
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Notwithstanding
In spite of, even if, without regard to or impediment by other things.
Nova customa
The name of an imposition or duty in England.
Nova statuta
New statutes. The name given to the statutes commencing with the reign of Edward III.
Novae narrationes
The title of an ancient English book, written during the reign of Edward III. It consists of declarations and some other pleadings.
Novation
Civil law. Novation is a substitution of a new for an old debt. The old debt is extinguished by the new one con- tracted in its stead; a novation may be made in three different ways, which form three distinct kinds of novations.
Novel
Novel disseisin
The name of an old remedy which was given for a new or recent disseisin.
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 Justinian law. This collection contains one hundred and thirteen novels, written origi- nally in Greek, and afterwards, in 1560, translated into Latin, by Agilaeus. - .
Novus actus interveniens
A harmful act or omission which occurs subsequent to an initial wrongful act or omission of a tortfeasor and which breaks the chain of causation between that initial act or omission and the ensuing damage.
Novus homo
A new man; -this term, is applied to a man who has been pardoned of a crime, by which he is restored to society, and is rebabilitated.
Noxal actton
Civil law. A personal, arbitrary, and indirect action in favor of one who has been injured by the slave of another, by which the owner or master of the slave was compelled either to pay the damages or abandon the slave.
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