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Old Bailey’s Sessions Papers.
Terms beginning with "O" (223 total)
O. R. Co
v. Tennessee, 153 U. S. 486, 14 Sup.
O.B
Old Bailey;—Old Benloe ;—Orlando Bridgman.
O.N.P.O
c.0O. Common Orders.
O'Brian, 8 Dill
881, Fed. Cas. No. 15,908; United States v. Smith, 4 Day (Conn.) 125,
O'Fallon v. Nicholson, 56 Mo
238; Pennsylvania Co. v. Loughlin, 1389 Pa. 612, 21 Atl. 163.
O’Connor, 106 Ind
81, 5 N. E. 880; Brown vy.
O’EST ASCAVOIR
L. Fr. That is to say, or to-wit. Generally written as one word, cestascavoir, cestascavoire.
O08 7
621, 7 Pratt v. Brown, Ten 608 : pron Kahn vy. acon, A Ga. 419, x s m "641: People v. aati ee Hun, 82; Tyrrell v. Jersey City, 25 J. Law. -536.—Disorderly house. In crim-
Oak Bank, 121 U. 8
121, 7 Sup. Ct. 865, 80
Oakes v. Munroe, 8 Cush
(Mass.) 287.—Pere sonal notice. Communication of notice orally or in writing (according to the circumstances) directly to the person affected or to be charged, as distinguished from constructive or implied notice, and ...
Oakland Pav. Co
v. Hilton, 69 Cal. 479, 11
OAPITA
him upon his false plea, and the jury were troubled with the trial of it. Cro. Jac. 64.
OARE
OARCER. A prison or gaol. Strictly, a place of detention and safe-keeping, and not of punishment. Co. Litt. 620.
Oas
t. Geo. I. Cases tempore George L., English Chancery (8, 9 Modern Reports). t. Holt (or H.). Cases tempore Holt, English King’s Bench ;—Holt’s Reports. t.Q.A. Cases tempore Queen Année (11 Modern Reports). t. T...
OASE
tion or enforcement of rights, or the prevention, redress, or punishment of wrongs; and whenever the claim or contention of a party takes such a form that the ace power is capable of acting uyen it, it has become a case ...
OASUS"
his prejudice, and in: the tenant’s life-time. Termes de la Ley.
OATER COUSIN
(From Fr. Quatrecousin.) A cousin in the fourth degree; hence any distant or remote relative.
OATH °°
oath. One taken In some judicial proceedin or in relation to some matter connected wi judicial proceedings—Oath against bribery. One which could have been administered to a voter at an election for members of parliamen...
OB
Lat. On account of; for. Several Latin phrases and maxims, commencing with
OB CAUSAM ALIQUAM A RE MARI
TIMA ORTAM. For some cause arising out of a maritime matter. 1 Pet. Adm. 92. Said to be Selden’s translation of the French. definition of admiralty jurisdiction, “pow le Feit de la mer.” Id.
OB CONTINENTIAM DELIOTI
account of contiguity to the offense, 4. c., being contaminated by conjunction with something illegal. For example, the cargo of a vessel, though not contraband. or unlawful, may be condemned in admiralty, niong with the...
OB FAVOREM MERCATORUM. In
favor of an erChAnts: Fleta, lib. 2, ec. 63, § 12.
Obedientia est legis essentia
11 Coke, 100. Obedience is the essence of law.
Obi
pt. 2, c. 4, art. 3, § 11.—Correi debendi.
OBITER
Lat. By the way; in passing ; incidentally; collaterally. —Obiter dictum. A remark made, or opinion expressed, by a judge, in his decision upon a cause, “by ‘the way,” that is, incidentally or collaterally, and n...
Obl
pt. 1, o. 1, § 1, art. 2. p. 4, c. 8, § 3, art. 3—Juramentum necessarium. n Roman law. <A compulsory oath. A disclosure under oath, which the pretor compelled one of the parties to a suit to make, when the other, ap...
OBLATA TERRA
brought, as it were, together from preceding years, and put on the present sheriff’s charge. Wharton. .
OBLATIO
Lat. In the civil law. A tender of money in payment of a debt made by debtor to creditor. Whatever is offered to the church by the pious. Calvin.
OBLIGATIO
Lat. In Romanlaw. The Jegal relation existing between two tertain persons whereby one (the creditor) is authorized to demand of the other (the debtor) a certain performance which has a money value. In this sense odligati...
OBLIGATION
(Ky.) 36; Sturgea v. Crowninshield, 4 Wheat. 197, 4 L. Bd. 529: Wachter v. Famachon,
OBLIQUUS
Lat. In the old law of descents. Oblique; cross; transverse; collateral. The opposite of rectus, right, or upright.
OBLITERATION
eut of written words.
OBREPTIO
Lat. The obtaining a thing by fraud or surprise. Calvin. Called, in Scotch law, “obreption.”
OBROGARE
Lat. In the civil law, To pass a law contrary to a former law, or to some clause of it; to change a former law in some part of it. Calvin.
OBSES
lat. In the law of war. A hostage. Odsides, hostages. :
OBSIGNARE
lIat. In the civil law. To seal up; as money that had been tendered and refused.
OBSOLETE
58 Pa. 244; Townshend v. Howard, 86 Me. zy 29 Atl. 1077; State v. Knippa, 29 Tex. 8.
OBSTA PRINCIPLS
which have become inoperative by lapse of time, either because the reason for their enactment has passed away, or their subjectmatter no longer exists, or they sre not applicable to changed circumstances, or are tacitly ...
OBSTA PRINOCIPIIS
Lat. Withstand beginnings; resist the first approaches or encroachments. “It is the duty of courts to be ‘watchful for the constitutional rights of the citizen, and against any stealthy encroachments thereon. Their m...
OBSTRUCT
1. To block up; to interpose obstacles; to render impassable; to fii with barriers or impediments; as to obstruct a road or way. U.S. v. Williams, 28
OBTULIT SE
(Offered himself.) In
OBVENTIO
lLat. In the civil law. Rent; profits; income; the return from an investment or thing owned; as the earnings of a vessel.
OBZERATUS
Lat. In Roman law. A debtor who was obliged to serve his creditor till his debt was saci nae?
OCAPAOITY | 166
the sovereigns of England, before whom it is carried at the coronation and other great solemnities. Caps of maintenance are also carried before the mayors of several cities in England. Enc. Lond.
OCAPITATIM
Lat. By the head; by
OCAUTELA
Lat. Care; lance; prevision.
OCCULTATIO THESAURI
incorporeal hereditament, e. g., his right to an easement, or profit &A prendre; an alternative word being “disturbance.” On the other hand, “infringement” is the word properly descriptive of an injury to any one...
OCCUPANCY
‘OCCUPANCY. Occupancy is a mode of acquiring property. by which a thing which belongs to nobody becomes the property of the person who took possession of it, with the intention of acquiring a right of ownership in it. ...
OCCUPAVIT
Lat. In old English law. A writ that lay for one who was ejected out of his land or tenement in time of war. Cowell.