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Definition of: Novels
(nov′əlz) noun plural
In civil law:
1. The amendments and supplementary laws to the Justinian Code decreed by Justinian and his immediate successors: in Latin, Novellae Constitutiones.
2. Similar decrees proclaimed by other Roman emperors.
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