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Compliance with a command. prohibition, or known law and rule of duty prescribed; the performance of what is required or enjoined by authority, or the abstaining from what is prohibited, in compliance

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,

To acquire; to get hold of by effort; to get and retain possession of; as. in the offense of “obtaining” money or property by false pretenses. See Com. v. Schmunk, 207 Pa.

An occupant; one who Is in the enjoyment of a thing.

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

The title of a treatise written in the reign of Edward III. containing the writs which were then most in use, annexing to each a short comment concerning their nature and the

There is no legal difference between an obligation payable “when de- manded” or “on demand” and one payable “on call” or “at any time called for.” In each case the debt is

A contract, lease, share, or other right is said to be “onerous” when the obligations attaching to it counter-balance or exceed the advantage to be derived from it, either absolutely or with

An officer formerly belonging to the green-wax in the exchequer.

The plaintiff in a cause or matter in chancery, when addressing or pe- titioning the court, used to style himself “orator,” and, when a woman, “oratrix.” But these terms have long gone

is the ceremony by which a bishop confers on a person the privileges and powers necessary for the execution of sacerdotal functions in the church. Phillim. Ecc. Law, 110.

In old English law. The trial by battle, which does not seem to have been usual in England before the time of the Conqueror, though originating in the kingdoms of the north,

An ancient hundred in Worcestershire, so called from Bishop Oswald, who obtained it from King Edgar, to be given to St. Mary’s Church in Worcester. It was exempt from the sheriff’s jurisdiction,

In the English courts, barristers at law have been divided into two classes, viz., king’s counsel, who are admitted within the bar of the courts, in seats specially reserved for themselves, and

In Scotch law. Out-towu multures; multures, duties, or tolls paid by persons voluntarily grinding corn at any mill to which they are not thirled, or bouud by tenure. 1 Forb. lust. pL

In Scotch law. An umpire appointed by a submission to decide where two arbiters have differed in opinion, or he is named by the arbiters themselves, under powers given them by the

An office, or the administration of it; a kind of rent; submission; obedience. Obedientia est legis essentia. 11 Coke, 100. Obedience is the essence of law.

Obtaining anything by fraud or surprise. Acquisition of escheats, etc., from the sovereign, by making false representations. Bell.

Lat. To obey. Hence the Scotch “obtempcr,” to obey or comply with a judgment of a court.

To hold In possession; to hold or keep for use. Missionary Soc. of M. E. Church v. Dalles City, 107 U. S. 343, 2 Sup. Ct. 677, 27 L. Ed. 545; Jackson