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NUCES COLLIGERE

NOVELS

NOVODAMUS. In old Scotch law. (We give anew.) The name given to a charter, or clause in a charter, granting a renewal of a right Bell. Novum, judicium non dat novum jus, sed declarat antiquum; quia judicium est juris dictum et per judicium jus est noviter revelatum quod diu fuit vela turn. A new adjudication does not make a new law, but declares the old; because ad judication is the utterance of the law, and by adjudication the law is newly revealed which was for a long time hidden. 10 Coke, 42. NOVUM OPUS. Lat In the civil law. A new work. See Novi OPEEIS NUNCIATIO. NOVUS HOMO. Lat. A new man. This term is applied to a man who has been par doned 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 com mitted by a man's slave or animal. An ac tion for damages lay against the master or owner, who, however, might escape further responsibility by delivering up the offending agent to the party injured. "Noxa" was al so used as the designation of the offense committed, and of its punishment, and some times of the slave or animal doing the dam age. Noxa sequitur .caput. The injury [i. C, liability to make good an injury caused by a slave] follows the head or person, [i. e., at taches to his master.] Heinecc. Elem. 1. 4, t. 8, § 1231. NOXAL ACTION. An action for dam age done by slaves or irrational animals. Sandars, Just. Inst (5th Ed.) 457. NOXAXIS ACTIO. Lat. In the civil law. An action which lay against the mas ter 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 offensiveness. Id. NUBILIS. Lat In the civil law. Mar riageable; one who is of a proper age to be married. NUCES COLLIGERE. Lat To collect nuts. This was formerly one of the works

the year 887 till the year 893, are so called. These Novels changed many rules of the Jus tinian law. This collection contains 113 Nov els, written originally in Greek, and after wards, in 1560, translated into Latin by Agil- *eus. Mackeld. Rom. Law, § 84. NOVELS. The title given in English to the New Constitutions (Novella Constitu Hones) of Justinian and his successors, now forming a part of the Corpus Juris Civilis. See NOVELLA. 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 PR2E SENTES. Know all men by these presents. Formal words used at the commencement of deeds of release in the Latin forms. NOVI OPERIS NUNCIATIO. Lat De nunciation 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 case, 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 pecun iary satisfaction for an injury, amounting to nine times the value of the thing for which it was paid. Spelman. (Lat est Compilation.) The title of a collection of Spanish law compiled by order of Don Carlos IV. in 1805. , 1 White, Recop. 355. new thing. No-vitas non tain utilitate prodest quant novitate perturbat. A novelty does not benefit so much by its utility as it dis turbs by its novelty. Jenk. Cent. p. 167, case 23. NOVITER PERVENTA, or NOVITER AD NOTITIAM PERVENTA. In ecclesi astical procedure. Facts "newly come" to the knowledge of a party to a cause. Leave to plead facts novit&r perventa is generally given, in a proper case, even after the plead ings are closed. Phillim. Bcc. Law, 1257; Rog. Ecc. Law, 723. NOVIGHJ>. NOVISSIMA RECOPILACION. NOVITAS. Lat. Novelty; newness; a