TheLaw.com Law Dictionary & Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed.
Lat. Novelty; newness; a new thing. Novitas non tam utilitate prodest quam novitate perturbat. A novelty does not benefit so much by its utility as it disturbs by its novelty. Jenk. Cent p. 167, case 23. … [Read more...]
TheLaw.com Law Dictionary & Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed.
Land newly plowed and converted into tillage, and which has not been tilled before within the memory of man; also fallow land. … [Read more...]
TheLaw.com Law Dictionary & Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed.
In ecclesiastical procedure Facts "newly come" to the knowledge of a party to a cause. Leave to plead facts noviter pervcnta is generally given, in a proper case, even after the pleadings are closed. Thillim. Ecc. Law, 1257; Rog. Ecc. Law, 723. … [Read more...]
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The notice given by the holder of a bill of exchange or promissory note, to a drawer or endorser on the same, that it has been dishonored, either by not being accepted in the case of a bill, or paid in cue of an accepted bill or note. 2. It is proper to consider, 1. The form of the notice; 2. By whom it is to be given; 3. To whom. 4. When; 5. Where; 6. Its effects; 7. When a … [Read more...]
TheLaw.com Law Dictionary & Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed.
Lat. Knowledge; information; intelligence; notice. Notitia dicitnr a noscendo; et notitia non debet clandicare. Notice is named from a knowledge being had; and notice ought not to halt, [i.e., be imperfect.] 6 Coke, 29. … [Read more...]