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| O | | This syllable in the termination of words has an active ... |
| OATH | | A declaration made according to law, before a competent tribunal ... |
| OBEDIENCE | | The performance of a command.</P><P>2. Officers who obey the command ... |
| OBIT | | That particular solemnity or office for the dead, which the ... |
| OBLATION | | eccl. law. In a general sense the property which accrues ... |
| OBLIGATION | | In its general and most extensive sense, obligation is synony- ... |
| OBLIGATION OF CONTRACTS | | By this expression, which is used in the consti- tution ... |
| OBLIGEE or CREDITOR | | contracts. The person in favor of whom some obliga- tion ... |
| OBLIGOR or DEBTOR | | The person who has engaged to perform some obligation. Louis. ... |
| OBREPTION | | civil law. Surprise. Dig. 3,5,8,1. Vide Surprise. ... |
| OBSCENIT | | crim. law. Such indecency as is calculated to promote the ... |
| OBSOLET | | This term is applied to those laws which have lost ... |
| OBSTRUCTING PROCES | | crim. law. The act by which one or more persons ... |
| OCCUPANC | | f the elements, the light, air, and water, can only ... |
| OCCUPANT or OCCUPIE | | One who has the actual use or possession of a ... |
| OCCUPATIO | | Use or tenure; as, the house is in the occupation ... |
| OCCUPAVI | | The name of a writ, which lies to recover the ... |
| OCCUPIE | | One who is in the enjoyment of a thing.</P><P>2. He ... |
| OCHLOCRAC | | A government where the authority is in the hands of ... |
| ODHALL RIGH | | The same as allodial. ... |
| OF COURS | | That which may be done, in the course of legal ... |
| OFFE | | contracts. A proposition to do a thing.</P><P>2. An offer ought ... |
| OFFENC | | crimes. The doing that which a penal law forbids to ... |
| OFFIC | | An office is a right to exercise a public function ... |
| OFFICE | | He who is lawfully invested with an office.</P><P>2. Officers may ... |
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