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WON-RESIDENT. One who is not a dweller within some jurisdiction in question ; not an inhabitant of the state of the forum.
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NYCTHEMERON
NURTURE. The act of taking care of children, bringing them up, and educating
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. Tal. Cases tempore Talbot, Engl...
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.
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 disregarded by all men, yet wi...
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 motto should be ‘Odsta princi...
OCEAN
OCEAN. . The main or open sea; the high sea; that portion of the sea which does not lie within the body of any country and is not subject to the territorial jurisdiction or control of any country, but is open, free, and .common.to the. use of all nat...
OCLAMEA ADMITTENDA IN ITINERE
PER ATTORNATUM. An ancient writ by which the king commanded the justices in eyre to admit the claim by attorney of a person who was in the royal service, and could not appear in person. Reg. Orig. 19.
OENTRALIZATION
ments commission in order to consolidate the ofiices of the masters and associates of the ‘common-law divisions, the crown office of the king’s bench division, the record and writ clerk’s report, and enrollment offices of the chancery division,...
OHEMIN
Fr. The road wherein every man goes; the king’s highway.
Ohio Brass Co., 80 Fed
721, 26 C. C. A. 107. —Contributory infringement. The intentional aiding of one person by another in the unlawful making or selling of a patented invention; usually done by making or selling one part of the patented invention, or one element of the...
ON ACCOUNT OF WHOM IT MAY
CONCERN. When a policy of insurance expresses that the insurance is made “on account of whom it may concern,” it will cover all persons having an insurable interest in the subject-matter at the date of the policy and who were then contemplated by...
OOMMERCIAL 222
12. Commercial] paper means negotiable paper given in due course of business, whether the element of negotiability be given it by the lawmerchant or by statute. A note given by a merchant for money loaned ie within the meaning. In re Sykes, 5 Biss. 1...
OOTROI
Fr. In French law. Originally, a duty, which, by the permission of the seigneur, any city was accustomed to collect on liquors and some other goods, brought within its precincts, for the consumption of the inhabitants. Afterwards appropriated to the ...
OPTIONAL WRIT
Optima statuti interpretatriz est (ommibus particulis ejusdem inspectis) ipsum statutum. The best interpreter of a statute is (all its parts being considered) the statute itself. Wing. Max. p. 289, max. 68; 8 Coke, 1178.
Or
358,:21 Pac. 132. ; 567, 18 Pac. 442; King v. 506, 23 Pac. 891; Ward v. State, 56 Ga. 410; Ruby v. State, 7 Mo. 208. 61.
ORANDO PRO REGE ET REGNO
An ancient writ which issued, while there was no standing collect for a sitting parliament, to pray for the peace and good government of the realm.
ORDINANCE OF THE FOREST. In
English law. <A statute made touching matters and causes of the forest, 33 & 34 Edw. I. - ;
ORDONNANCE
Fr. In French law, an ordinance; an order of a court; a compilation or systematized body of law relating to a particular subject-matter, as, ‘commercial law or maritime law. Particularly, a compilation of the law relating to prizes and captures at ...
ORIGINAL
ORGANIC LAW. The fundamental law, or constitution, of a state or nation, written er unwritten; that law or system of laws or principles which defines and establishes the organization of its government. St. and size as is zsed by producers or shipper...
ORUELTY
Cruelty includes both willfulness and malicious temper of mind with which an act is done, as well as a high degree of pain inflicted. Acts merely accidental, though they inflict great pain, are not “cruel,” in the sense of the word as used in sta...
OUTETT
1. An allowance made by the United States government to one of its diplomatic representatives going abroad, for the expense of his equipment.
OUTROPER
AQUTROPER. A person to whom the business of seliing by auction was confined by statute. 2 H. BI. 557.
Pa. St
391. —Corporate franchise. The right to exist and do business as a corporation ; the right or privilege granted by the state or government to the persons forming an aggregate private corporation, and their successors, to exist and do business as a ...
PARI CAUSA
Lat. With equal right; upon an equal footing; equivalent in rights or claims. gg.
PARI MATERIA
Lat. Of the same matter; on the same subject; as, laws part materia must be construed with reference to each other. Bac. Abr. “Statute,” I, 3.
PARLIAMENTI
Old writs whereby knights of the shire and burgesses might have recovered their wages or allowance if ig had been refused. 35 Hen. VIII. c 11.
PECULIUM
parishes dispersed through the province of Canterbury, in the midst of other dioceses, which are exempt from the ordinary’s jurisdiction, and subject to the metropolitan only. Lat. In Roman law. Such
People, 23 Colo
33, 46 Pac. 112, 938. LR. A. 58 Am. St. Rep. 215.—Legal cruelty. Such as will warrant the granting of a divorce to the injured party; as distinguished from such kinds or degrees of cruelty as do not, under the statutes and decisions, amount to suft...
PERDUELLIO
Lat. In Roman law. Hostility or enmity towards the Roman republic; traitorous conduct on the part of a citizen, subversive of the authority of the laws or tending to overthrow the government. Calvin; Vicat.