Opus Novum
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
In the civil law. A new work. By this term was meant something newly built upon land, or taken from a work already ereeted. He was said opus novum facere (to make a new work) who, either by building or by taking anything away, changed the former appeurance of a work, Dig. 89,2, 1, 11. OR. <A term used in heraldry, and signifying gold; called “sol” by same heralds when it occurs in the arms of princes, and “topaz” or “carbuncle” when borne by peers. Engravers represent it by an indelinite nuimber of small points.
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