NOVATION

No‐va″tion (?), n. [[L. novatio; novus new: cf. F. novation.]] 1. 1. Innovation.
I shall easily grant that novations in religion are a main cause of distempers in commonwealths. Laud. 2. 2. (Law) A substitution of a new debt for an old one; also, the remodeling of an old obligation.