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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...] about NOVEL

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...] about NOVUS HOMO

See NEW ASSIGNMENT. … [Read more...] about NOVEL ASSIGNMENT

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...] about NOVEL DISSEISIN

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 originally in Greek, and afterwards, in 1560, translated into Latin, by Agilaeus. … [Read more...] about NOVELLAE LEONIS