Category: O

Recorded; entered on the records; existing and remaining in or upon the appropriate records.

In Spanish law. To hear; to take cognizance. White, New Recop. b. 3, tit 1, c. 7.

When a policy of insurance expresses that the insurance is made “on account of whom it may concern,” it will cover all persons having an insurable interest in the subject-matter at the

Lat. In the civil law. The servitude of support; a servitude by which the wall of a house is required to sustain the wall or beams of the adjoining house.

Lat. In the civil law. To pledge. Calvin.

A party in Ireland who keep alive the views of William of Orange. Wharton.

n. At common law. One who has exempt and immediate jurisdiction in causes ecclesiastical. Also a bishop; and an archbishop is the ordinary of the whole province, to visit and receive appeals

In English law. Transcripts sent to the remembrancer’s office in the exchequer out of the chancery, distinguished from recorda, which contain the judgments and pleadings in actions tried before the barons. Origine

The law by which was effected the ejection of married priests, and the introduction of monks into churches, by Oswald, bishop of Worcester, about A. D. 904. Wharton.

In mining law. The edge of a stratum which appears at the surface of the ground; that portion of a veiu or lode which appears at the surface or immediately under the

1. Remaining undischarged; unpaid; uncollected; as an outstanding debt. 2. Existing as an adverse claim or pretension; not united with, or merged in, the title or claim of the party; as au

A superintendent or supervisor ; a public officer whose duties involve general superintendence of routine affairs.

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