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Novigild

Defined in 5 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Bouvier (1914), Kinney (1893), Black's (1891)

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

In Saxon law, A pecuniary satisfaction for an injury, amounting to nine times the value of the thing for which it was paid. Spelman.

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

James A. Ballentine · 1916

A ninefold compensation for injury.

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia

John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914

A pecuniary satisfaction for an injury, amounting to nine times the value of the thing for which it was paid. Spelman. NOVUS HOMO (Lat. a new man). This term is applied to a man who has been pardoned of a crime, by which he is restored to society and is rehabilitated.

A Law Dictionary and Glossary

George C. Kinney · 1893

In Saxon law. A pecuniary satisfaction for an injury, nine times the value of the thing for which it was paid. No vis injuriis emersis, nova constituuntur remedia, 1. As new injuries arise, new remedies are ordained.

A Dictionary of Law

Henry Campbell Black · 1891

In Saxon law. A pecuniary satisfaction for an injury, amounting to nine times the value of the thing for which it was paid. Spelman.