Nova
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence · Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
New. Nova constitutio futuris formam imponere debet, non preeteritis. A new enactment should lay down a rule for the future, not the past. Enactments should be prospective in their operation, not retrospective. A maxim usually cited in the form, omnis nova constitutio futuris formam imponere debet, non prceteritis, q. v.
Nova statuta
New statutes. An appellation sometimes given to the statutes which have been passed since the beginning of the reign of Edward III.
1 Steph. Com. 68.
Nov» narrationes. A collection of pleadings in actions during the reign of Edward III. It consisted principally of declarations, as the title imports; but there were sometimes pleas and the subsequent pleadings. Reeve Hist. Eng. Law. NOVATI'O; NOVATION. A term derived from the civil law, but recently of frequent use in English and American reports and treatises, signifying substitution of a new engagement, indebtedness, or obligation, for an old one, as where a renewal note is given. In the civil law, there are three kinds of novation: 1. Where the debtor and creditor remain the same, but a new debt takes the place of the old one; 2. Where the debt remains the same, but a new debtor is substituted; 3. Where the debt and debtor remain, but a new creditor is substituted.
Adams v. Power, 48 Miss. 451.
Novatlo non presumitur
Novation is not presumed.