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For an immoral consideration. Dig. 12, 5.

Erasure or blotting out of written words. Obliteration is not limited to effacing the letters of a will or scratching thein out or blotting them so completely that they cannot be read.

1. To block up; to interpose obstacles; to render impassable; to fill with barriers or impediments; as to obstruct a road or way. U. S. v. Williams, 23 Fed. Cas. 033; Chase

Possessed; used; employed.

A Scotch expression, closely translated from the Latin “de novo,” (q. v.)

This term is synonymous with “issue.” See Barber v. Railroad Co., 166 U. S. 83, 17 Sup. Ct 488, 41 L. Ed. 925; Allen v. Markle, 36 Pa. 117; Powell v. Brandon,

In part payment; in partial satisfaction of an account. The phrase is usually contrasted with “in full.”

See O. Nl.

Oportet quod certa res deducatur in donationem. It is necessary that a certain tiling he brought into the gift, or made the subject of the conveyance. Bract, fol. 156. Oportet quod certa

An ancient writ which issued, while there was no standing collect for a sitting parlia- ment. to pray for the peace and good government of the realm.

In English law. A statute made touching matters and causes of the forest. 33 & 34 Edw. I.

Primitive; first in order; bearing its own authority, and not deriving authority from an outside source; as original jurisdiction, original writ, etc. As applied to documents, the original is the first copy

Lat. In old English law. The door or porch of the church, where dower was anciently conferred.

A tax or charge formerly imposed by the state of Maryland for the in- spection and markiug of hogsheads of tobacco intended for export. See Turner v. Mary- land, 107 U. S.

In Scotch law. Publisher. 3 How. State Tr. C03.

In old English law. A forfeiture for contempt or neglect in not pursuing a malefactor. 3 Inst. 116.

Lat. In Roman law. A debtor who was obliged to serve his creditor till his debt was discharged. Adams, Rom. Ant. 49.

To expose one to “obloquy” Is to expose him to censure and reproach, as the latter terms are synonymous with “obloquy.” Bettuer v. Holt, 70 Cal. 275, 11 Pac. 710.

This is the word properly descriptive of an injury to any one’s incorporeal hereditament, e. y., his right to an easement, or profit d prendre; au alter- native word being “disturbance.” Ou

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.