Nova

I. New. Nova constitutio futuris formam imponere debet, non prxteritis: anew statute or enactment ought to px-escribe form V to future acts, not to those that are past Nova statnta: new or later statutes; a name given to the English statutes from" the beginning of the reign of Edward III. Novae narrationes: new counts or tales; in old English, new talys; a collection of forms of pleading, published in the reign of Edward III.