Novel
Defined in 5 dictionaries — Ballentine's (1916), Kinney (1893), Anderson (1889), Stimson (1881), Abbott (1879)
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
New.
A Law Dictionary and Glossary
George C. Kinney · 1893
I. fr. New; recent. Novel assignment: a new assignment Novel disseisin: recent disseisin.
A Dictionary of Law
William C. Anderson · 1889
See Assignment, 1.
Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law
Frederic Jesup Stimson · 1881
_/9-. New. Novel disseisin: v. Assize.
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
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.