Category:Novation

No*va"tion, n. Etym: [l. novatio; novus new: cf. F. novation.]

1. Innovation. [obs.] I shall easily grant that novations in religion are a main cause of Distempers in commonwealths. Laud.

2. (law)

Defn: a substitution of a new debt for an old one; also, the Remodeling of an old obligation.