Note 472 — Book XIII.
John Beames translation
As to the term novel, when the Action was brought before the Eyre, or Circuit, the Action or Disseisin was ancient, whilst, if the Disseisin were done since the last Eyre, then it was a novel Disseisin. Bracton treats largely upon the subject of novel Disseisin 160, et seq. See also 2 Inst. 24. The remedy of novel Disseisin is also treated of in the Assises of Jerusalem, with some peculiar provisions adapted to the singular circumstances in which the Holy Land was situated, (c. 63. et seq.) The respectable Translator of the Code Napoleon observes, that he has not met with the term novel disseisin before Magna Carta.—Amidst the attention of preparing his work for the press, he must have forgotten not only Glanville, but the Mirror.—Whatever doubt maybe entertained respecting the authority of the Mirror, yet Glanville indubitably proves, that the term was well known to our lawyers antecedent to the Great Charter. (See Mirror, c. 2. s. 25.)