Dictionary entry

Novation

Webster's Dictionary 1913

No‐va″tion (?), n. [L. novatio; novus new: cf. F. novation.] 1. Innovation.

I shall easily grant that novations in religion are a main cause of distempers in commonwealths. Laud.

2. (Law) A substitution of a new debt for an old one; also, the remodeling of an old obligation.