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OVERSOLD

A market with excessive selling for a short period of time.

OPEN BOOK

When liabilities have a shorter maturity date than the assets.

OPEN INTEREST

The number of outstanding futures not accomidated by delivery availability.

ORJURER

L. Fr. In old English law. to forswear; to abjure.

ORDINARY DILIGENCE

is that degree of care which men of common prudence generally exercise in their affairs, in the country and the age in which they live. Erie Bank v. Smith. 3 Brewst. (Pa.)

OLCOTT V

Ga- bert. 86 Tex. 121, 23 S. W. 985. Also an overseer, (coadjutor of an executor,) and one who disseises a person of land not to his own use, but to that

OATH

OATH. An external pledge or assevera- lon, made in verification of statements made cr to be made, coupled with an appeal to a sucred or venerated object, in evidence of the serious

OBLIGOR

The person who has engaged to perform some obligation. Code La. art 3522, no. 12. One who makes a bond.

OBSTANTE

Withstanding; hindering. See NON OBSTANTE.

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