This term means sometimes a mill, factory, or other establishment for performing industrial labor of any sort and sometimes a building, structure, or erection of any kind upon land, as in the civil law phrase “new works.” New works. A term of the civil law comprehending every sort of edifice or other structure which is newly commenced on a given estate or lot Its importance lies chiefly in the fact that a remedy is given (“denunciation of new works”) to an adjacent proprietor whose property would be injured or subjected to a more onerous servitude if such a work were allowed to proceed to completion. Public work, whether of construction or adaptation, undertaken and carried out by the national, state, or municipal authorities, and designed to subserve some purpose of public necessity, use, or convenience; such as public buildings, roads, aqueducts, parks, etc.