ant to do the thing required, or show the reasom wherefore he had not done it. 8 BI.

Lat, Work; labor; the product of work or labor. —Opus locatum. The product of work let for use to another; or the hiring out of work or labor to be done upon a thing.—Opus manificum. In old English law. Labor done by the hands; manual labor; such as making a hedge, digging a ditch. Fleta, lib. 2, c. 48, § 8. us novum. In the civil] law. A new work. By this term was meant something newly built upon land, or taken from a work already erected. He was said opus novum facere (to make a new work) who, either by building or by taking nse away, Pe pee the former appearance of a work. Dig. 39, 1,