Novel
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. Novel assignment. See New Assignment. Novel disseisin. Originally signified a disseisin committed since the last eyre or circuit of justices. It also signifies a remedy, now obsolete, for such a disseisin, the full name of which remedy was assise of novel disseisin.