Naked. This word is applied metaphorically to a variety of subjects to indicate that they are lacking in some essen-tlal legal requisite
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Lat. To collect nuts. This was formerly one’ at the works
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Hurtful; offensive; offensive to the smell. Rex v. whlte, 1 Burrows, 337. The word “noxious” includes the complex Idea both of insalubrity and offenslveness. Id
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Lat in the civU law. Marriageable; one who is of a proper age to be married
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Lat in the civU 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, whlch was called “noxa” Usually translated “noxal actlon
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LaL In the civll law. An offense committed or damage done by a slave. Iust. 4, 8, 1
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Lat in the civil law. This term denoted any damage or injury done to persons or property hy an unlawful act com-mitted by a man’s slave or animal. An action for damages lay agalnst the master er owner, who, however, might escape further responsibility hy delivering up the offending agent to the party injured. “Noxa” vrsa al-so used as the designation of the oflense committed, and of its punishment, and some-times of the slave or animal doing the dam-age
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An action for dam-age done by slaves or Irrational animals
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Lat. In the civil law. A new work. See Novi opkbis Nunciatio
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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
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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
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In Saxon law. A pecuniary satisfaction for an injury, amounting to nine times the value of the thing for whlch it was paid. Spelman
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(Lat-est Compilation.) The title of a collection of
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Know all men by these presents. Formal words used at the commencement of deeds of release in the Latin forms
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The tltle given in English to the New Constitutions (Novella Constitu-tioncs) ot Justinian and hls successors, now forming a part of the Corpus Juris Civilis. See Novelise
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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.”
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NSTI-TUTIONES.) New constitutions; generally translated in English, “Novels.” The Latin name of those constitutions which were is-sued by Justiuian after the publication of his Code; most of them being originally written in Greek. After hls death, a col-lection of 168 Novels was made, 154 of which had been issued by Justinian, and the rest by hls successors. These were afterwards included in the Corpus Juris Civilis, (q. v.,) and now constitute one of its four prin-cipal divisions. Mackeld. Rom. Law, 8 80; 1 Kent, Comm. 541
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The ordinances of the Emperor Leo, which were made from
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In the clvil law. Land that rested a year after the first plowing. Dig. 50, 16, 30, 2
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Novation is the substitu-tion of a new debt or obligation for an exist-ing one. Civ. Code Cal. § 1530; Civ. Code Dak. ft 863; Hard v. Burton, 62 Vt. 314, 20 Atl. 269; McCartney v. Kipp, 171 Pa. 644, 33 Atl. 233; McDonnell v. Alabama Gold L. lns. Co., 85 Ala. 401, 5 South. 120; Shafer’s Appeal, 99 Pa. 246
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