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(Lat. from novare, to make new, from novus, new). In the civil law. Literally, a making new. A change of a former debt or obligation into another of the same or a different kind, either by a change of the persons, called delegatio, or by a change in the obligation, the persons continuing the same. Inst. 3. 30. 3; Dig. 46. 2; Code, 8. 42; Halifax, Anal. bk. 2, c. 20, No. 8; Heinec. Elem. Jur. Civ. lib. 3, tit. 30, § 1011 et seq. This term, translated or eonverted into “novation,” is extensively used in modern civil law, and in the jurisprudence of Holland, Spain, France, Scotland, and the state of Louisiana. Burge, Sur. 166. Called in Fleta, innovatio. Fleta, lib. 2, c. 60, § 12. See “Novation.”

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(Lat. from novare, to make new, from novus, new). In the civil law. Literally, a making new. A change of a former debt or obligation into another of the same or a different kind, either by a change of the persons, called delegatio, or by a change in the obligation, the persons continuing the same. Inst. 3. 30. 3; Dig. 46. 2; Code, 8. 42; Halifax, Anal. bk. 2, c. 20, No. 8; Heinec. Elem. Jur. Civ. lib. 3, tit. 30, § 1011 et seq. This term, translated or eonverted into “novation,” is extensively used in modern civil law, and in the jurisprudence of Holland, Spain, France, Scotland, and the state of Louisiana. Burge, Sur. 166. Called in Fleta, innovatio. Fleta, lib. 2, c. 60, § 12. See “Novation.”

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