Category: O

A writ addressed to the magistrates of a corporation, requiring them not to make such a man an oflicer, or to put one out of the office he has, until ln-quiry is made of hls manners, etc. Reg. orig. 126

The court or Jurisdic-tion of which an offldal ls head

In English ecclesiastical law. Personal tlthes, payable by custom to the parson or vicar of a parish, either occa-sionally, as at sacranieuts, marriages, churching of women, burials, etc., or at con-stant times, as at Easter, Christmas, etc

In English ecclesiastical law. The offerings of the falthful, or the place where they are made or kept; the servlce at the tlme of the Communion

1. To bring to or before; to present for acceptance or rejection; to hold out or proffer; to make a proposal to; to exhibit something that may be taken or re-ceived or not. Morrison v. Springer, 15 Iowa, 346; Vincent v. woodland oil Co., 165 Pa. 402, 30 AU. 991; People v. Ah Fook, 62 […]

A crime or misdemeanor; a breach of the crlminal laws. Moore v. IUi-nois, 14 How. 13, 14 L. Ed. ,306; Illies v. Knight, 3 Tex. 312; People v. French, 102

Recorded; entered on the records; existing and remalning ln of upon the approprlate records

In old English lnw. The morsel of execration; the corsn-ed, (q. v.) 1 Reeve, Eng. Law, 21

A term applied to hny jier-mission or license granted to & phrty ln the course of a judlclal proceeding which 1S not claimable as a matter of Course or of right, but Is allowed by the favor or indulgence of the court See waiters ?. McElroy, 151 Pa. 549, 25 Atl. 125

A phrase commonly ap1 plied in practice to the counsel employed by a party ln a cause, and particularly to one employed to assist In the preparation of management of a cause, or lts presentation on appeal, but who ls not the principal attorney of record for the party

Fr. In French law. originally, a duty, whlch, by the permission of the seigneur, any city was accustomed to col-lect on liquors and some other goods, brought wlthln its precincts, for the consumption of the inhabitants. Afterwards appropriated to the use of the king. Steph. J

Eight such; eight such men; eight snch jurors. The name of a writ, at common law, which issues when up* on a trial at bar, eight more Jurors are nec-essary to fill the panel, commanding the sheriff to summon the requisite number. 3 BL Comm. 364. See Dkcem Tales

Government by the multitude. A form of government wherein the populace has the whole power and administration in its own hands

In old English law. . The eighth day inclusive after a feast; oue of the return days of writs. 3 Bl. Comm. 278

In old Scotch law. A name of dignity; a freeholder. Skene de Verb. 8lgn

Ah occupant; one who la hi the enjoyment of a thlng

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 nations. See U. S. v. Rodgers, 150 U. […]

Possessed; used; employed

Lat In old English la*. A writ that lay for one who was ejected out of his land or tenement in time of war. Cowell

L Possession; control; tennre; use

Lat In the civU law. To seize or take possession of; to enter upon a vacant possession; to take possession before another. Calvin

That which has been’ left by the right owner, and is now possess-* ed by another

In a general sense, one

In old English law. As-sarts. Spelman

occupancy ls 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 owner-ship in it. Civ. Code La. art. 3412; God-dard v. winchell, 86 Iowa, 71, 52 N. W. 1124, 17 L R. […]

In feudal law. A tribute which the lord Imposed on his vassals or tenants for hls necessity. Hindrance; trouble; vexation by suit

To be charged or load-ed with payments or occasional penalties

In Spanish law. Accldent. Las Partidas, pt. 3, tit. 32, 1. 21; white, New Recop. b. 2, tit. 9, c. 2

(offered hlmself.) In old practice. The emphatic words of entry on the record where one party offered Mm-self in court against the other, and the iat-ter did not appear. 1 Reeve, ling. Law, 417

Lat In tbe oivil law

To protest

In Roman law. Taking by the neck or collar; as a plalntlff was allowed to drag a reluctant defendant to court. Adams, Rom. Ant 242

In criminal law. The act hy which one or more persons attempt to prevent or do prevent the execution of lawful process

1. To block up; to inter-pose obstacles; to render impassable; to fill with harriers or impediments; as to obstruct a road or way. U. S. v. williams, 28 Fed. Cas. 633; Chase v. Oshkosh, 81 wis. 313, 51 N. W. 560, 15 L. R. A. 553, 29 Am. St. Rep. 898; overhouser v. American Cereal […]

Obligation; bond

withstanding; hindering. See Non obstaktb

Becoming obsolete: going out of use; not entirely disused, but gradually becoming so

Disttsed; neglected; not observed. The term is applied to statutes

Ratifying and con-firming

Lat. In the law of war. A hostage. Obsides, hostages.

Lat In the civil law. To seal up; as money that had been tendered and refused

The character or quality of beiug obscene; conduct tending to corrupt the public morals by its indecency or lewdness. State v. Pfeuninger, 76 Mo. App. 313; U. S. v. Loftis (D. C.) 12 Fed. 67L

In the clvll law. To per* form that which has been prescribed by some law or usage. Dig. 1, 3, 32. See Marshall County v. Knoll, 102 Iowa, 573, 60 N. W. 1140

Lewd; ftnpure; indecent; calculated to shock the moral sense of man by a disregard of chastity or modesty. Tim-mous v. u. S., 85 Fed. 205, 30. C. C. A. 74; U. S. v. Harmon (D. C.) 45 Fed. 414; Dunlop v. U. S., 105 U. S. 486, 17 Sup. CL 375. 41 L. Ed. 799; […]

Lat In tbe civU 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

In the civU law. The alteration of a law by the passage of one in-consistent with lt Calvin

obtaining anything by fraud or surprise. Acquisition of escheats, etc., from the sovereign, by making faise rep* resentations. Beit

In Spanish law. work. Obras, works or trades; those which men carry on in houses or covered places, white, New Recop. b. 1, tit 5, c. 3, I 6

Erasure or blotting eut of written words

I,at In tbo old law of desoents. oblique; cross; transverse; col-lateral. Tbe opitoslte of rvetus, right, or up-right