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NUDA POSSESSIO

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Lat. Bare or mere possession. Nuda ratio ot nnda paotio non ligant. aliquem debitor em. Naked reason and. naked promise do not bind , any debtor. Fleta, L 2, c 60, … [Read more...]

NOVEL

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Unique, unusual. A requirement of intellectual property law with regard to the ability to obtain protection for an invention, idea or brand. … [Read more...]

NOVUS HOMO

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Latin: A new man. This term is applied to a man who has been pardoned of a crime, and so made, as it were, a "new man." … [Read more...]

NOVEL DISSEISIN

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The name of an old remedy which was given for a new or recent disseisin. 2. When tenant in fee simple, fee tail, or for term of life, was put out, and digseised of his lands or tenements, rents, find the like; he might sue out a writ of assise or novel disseisin; and if, upon trial, he could prove his title, and his actual seisin, and the disseisin by the present tenant, be was … [Read more...]

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