New

1.

Applied to the same subject or object, stands opposed to old, as in " new patent: " more or less efficacious, or possessing new properties by a combination with other ingredients, not from a mere change of form produced by mechanical division.'

See Novelty.

2.

In technical phrases, varies only slightly,, if at all, from the popular signification: as, in new — acknowledgment, assets, assignment, buildings, evidence or proofs, matter, parties, promise, trial, qq. v. Of. Renew. !N"e"w for old. In adjusting losses in marine insurance, the rule has been to apply the old materials toward paying for new, on a valuation of one-third for the old.

2 See Building; Restitutio, 2.

ETewly discovered evidence.

See Discovery, 3.