NUEVA RECOPILACION
(New Compilation.) The title of a code of Spanish law, promulgated in the year 1567. Schm.
Category: Property
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NULLITY
own property. Dig. 8, 2, 26; 2 Bouv. Inst. no. 1600: Grant v. Chase, 17 Mass. 443, 9
NULLIUS IN BONIS
Lat. Among the property of no person.
NUPER OBIIT
NUNOCUPATIVE WILL. A will which depends merely upon oral evidence, having been declared or dictated by the testator in his last sickness before a sufficient number of witnesses, and afterwards reduced to writing. Ex parte Thompson, 4 Bradf. Sur. (N. ...
O.B
Old Bailey;—Old Benloe ;—Orlando Bridgman.
Oakland Pav. Co
v. Hilton, 69 Cal. 479, 11
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.
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’s patent-rights or to his c...
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. Civ. Code La. art. 8412; Godda...
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.
OCCUPYING CLAIMANT AOTS. Stat
utes providing for the reimbursement of a bona fide occupant and claimant of land, on its recovery by the true’ owner, to the extent to which lasting improvements made by him have increased the value of the land; and generally giving him a lien the...
OCHATTEL MORTGAGE
certain metes and bounds, but it may be in other men’s grounds, as well as in one's own. Manwood, 49,
OCLIENS
Lat. In the Roman law. A client or dependent. One who depended upon another as his patron or protector, adviser
OCOURT-HOUSE
COURT-HOUSE. The building occupied for the public sessions of a court, with its various offices. The term may be used of a place temporarily occupled for the sessions of a court, though not the regular courthouse. Harris v. State, 72 Miss. 960, 18
Officer (C. C.) 2 Fed
640; Pooley v. Driver, 5 Ch. Div. 458; Jones vy. Fegely. 4 Phila. (Pa.) 1.—Liquidating partner. The partner who, upon the dissolution or insolvency of the firm, is appointed to settle its accounts, collect assets, adjust claims, and pay debts —No...
OFFICIAL
For definitions of the various classes and kinds of officers, see the titles “Commissioned Officers,” “Executive,” “Fiscal,” “dJudi- Sweet.—Official trustee of charity lands. The secretary of the English charity commis-
OHATTEL MORTGAGE
gagee. Means y. Montgomery (C. C.) 23 Fed. 421; Stewart v. Slater, 6 Duer (N. Y.) 99.
Ohio St
557.—Equitable assets. Equitable assets are all assets which are chargeable with the payment of debts or legacies in equity, and which do not fall under the description of legal assets. 1 Story, Eq. Jun § 552. Those portions of the property which ...
OHIROGRAPHER OF FINES. In Eng
lish law. The title of the officer of the common pleas who engrossed fines in that court so as to be acknowledged into a perpetual record. Cowell
Omaha Land Co., 134 U. 8
178, 10 Sup. Ct. 518, 33 L. Ed. 872; New Orleans v. United
OMNIBUS BILL
1. In legislative prac tice, a bill including in one act various separate and distinct matters, and particularly one joining a number of different subjects in one measure in such a way as to compel the executive authority to accept provisions which h...
One whose
business is to buy and sell merechandise, or any class of goods, deriving a profit.from his dealings. 2 Kent, Comm. 389; State v. Chabourn, 80 N. C. 481, 30 Am. Rep. 94; In re New York & W.. Water Co. (D.
ONERANDO PRO RATA PORTIONIS
A writ that lay for a joint tenant or tenant in common who was distrained for more rent than his proportion of the land comes to.
OOAST
there is no uniformity in their constitutions and rules. It is well known that clubs exist which limit the number of the members and_ select them with great care, which own considerable property in common, and in which the furnishlng of food and drin...
OOCOCUPYING CLAIMANT ACTS
- OCCUPARE. Lat. In the civil law. To seizé or take possession of; to enter upon ® vacant possession; to take possession before another. Calvin.
OONNIVANCE
by another. Oakland Bank v. Wilcox, 60
OPEN /
session has now begun and that the business before the court will be proceeded with—Open a credit. To accept or pay the draft of a correspondent who has not furnished funds. Par dessus, no. —Open a deposition. To. break the seals by which it was ...
OPORTET QUOD CERTA
Oportet quod certa res deducatur in donationem. It is necessary that a certain thing be brought into the gift, or made the subject of the conveyance. Bract. fol. 150.
OPUS
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 th...
Orby v. Lord Mohin, 2 Vern
542.—Ancient serjeant. In English law. The eldest of the queen’s serjeants.—Ancient wall. <A _ wall built to be used, and in fact used, as a partywall, for more than twenty years, by the express permission and continuous acquiescence of the own...