Noviter Perventa

or NOVITER ad notitiam perventa. In ecclesiastical procedure. Facts "newly come" to the knowledge of a party to a cause. Leave to plead facts noviter perventa is generally given, in a proper case, even after the pleadings are closed. Phillim. Ecc. Law, 1257; Rog. Ecc. Law, 723. NOVODAMUS (Law Lat.)

In old Scotcti law. We give anew. The name given to a charter or clause in a charter, granting a renewal of a right. Bell, Diet. NOVUM JUDICIUM NON DAT NOVUM jus, sed declarat antiquum. A new judgment does not make a new law, but declares the old. 10 Coke, 42. NOVUM OPUS (Lat.)

In the civil law. A new work. See "Novi Operis Nunciatio;" "Opus Novum." 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. NOXA (Lat.)

In civil law. Damages resulting from an offense committed by an irresponsible agent; the offense itself; the punishment for the offense; the slave or animal who did the offense, and who is delivered up to the person aggrieved {datur noxae) unless the owner choose to pay the damage. The right of action is against whoever becomes the possessor of the slave or

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