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Naked. This word is applied metaphorically to a variety of subjects to indicate that they are lacking in some essen-tlal legal requisite […]

Lat. To collect nuts. This was formerly one’ at the works Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Lat. Mere suf-ferance Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Hurtful; offensive; offensive to the smell. Rex v. whlte, 1 Burrows, 337. The word “noxious” includes the complex Idea both of insalubrity […]

Lat in the civU law. Marriageable; one who is of a proper age to be married Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed […]

Lat in the civU law. An action which lay against the mas-ter of a slave, for some offense (as theft or robbery) […]

LaL In the civll law. An offense committed or damage done by a slave. Iust. 4, 8, 1 Source: Black’s Law Dictionary […]

Lat in the civil law. This term denoted any damage or injury done to persons or property hy an unlawful act com-mitted […]

An action for dam-age done by slaves or Irrational animals Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Lat. In the civil law. A new work. See Novi opkbis Nunciatio Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Lat A new man. This term is applied to a man who has been par-doned of a crime, and so made, as […]

Lat. Novelty; newness; a new thing Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In old Scotch law. (We give anew.) The name given to a charter, or clause in a charter, granting a renewal of […]

In Saxon law. A pecuniary satisfaction for an injury, amounting to nine times the value of the thing for whlch it was […]

(Lat-est Compilation.) The title of a collection of Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Know all men by these presents. Formal words used at the commencement of deeds of release in the Latin forms Source: Black’s […]

Lat De Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

The tltle given in English to the New Constitutions (Novella Constitu-tioncs) ot Justinian and hls successors, now forming a part of the […]

An objection to a patent or claim for a patent on the ground that the invention is not new or original is […]

NSTI-TUTIONES.) New constitutions; generally translated in English, “Novels.” The Latin name of those constitutions which were is-sued by Justiuian after the publication […]

The ordinances of the Emperor Leo, which were made from Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

See New Assignment Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

See Assise of Novel Disseisin Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In the clvil law. Land that rested a year after the first plowing. Dig. 50, 16, 30, 2 Source: Black’s Law Dictionary […]

Novation is the substitu-tion of a new debt or obligation for an exist-ing one. Civ. Code Cal. § 1530; Civ. Code Dak. […]