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In legal proceedings, to object (e. ff., to the admission of evidence) is to interpose a declaration to the effect that the particular matter or thing under considera- tion is not done

Lat. In the civil law. To pass a law contrary to a former law, or to some clause of it; to change a former law in some part of it Calviu.

To protest.

Statutes providing for the reimbursement of a bona fide occupant and claimant of land, on Its recovery by the true owner, to the extent to which lasting improvements made by him have

In the law relating to nuisances and similar matters, this term means noxious, causing annoyance, discomfort, or painful or disagreeable sensations. See Rowland v. Miller (Super. N. Y.) 15 N. Y. Supp.

A treatise, so called to distinguish it from Littleton’s book on the same subject, which gives an account of the various tenures by which land was holden, the nature of estates, and

In case of default; upon failure of stipulated action or performance; upon the occurrence of a failure, omission, or neglect of duty.

Dutch. Immovable and fast estate, that is, land or real estate. The phrase is used in Dutch wills, deeds, and antenuptial contracts of the early colonial period in New York. See Spraker

In bankruptcy practice. Opposition is the refusal of a creditor to assent to the debtor’s discharge under the bankrupt law. In French law. A motion to open a judgment by default aud

Deprivation of one’s parents or children, or privation in general. Little used.

In ecclesiastical law. The holy orders of priest, deacon, and subdeacon, any of which qualified for presentation and admission to an ecclesiastical dignity or cure were called “ordincs majores;” and the inferior

In the civil law. Managers of houses for orphans.

In Saxon law. Oathsworth ; oathworthy ; worthy or entitled to make oath. Bract, fols. 185, 292b

A liberty or privilege in the ancient common law, whereby a lord was enabled to call any man dwelling in his manor, and taken for felony in another place out of his

L. Fr. With. Modern French avcc.

An opening; a proposal.

The act of a party who objects to some matter or proceeding in the course of a trial, (see OBJECT, V.:) or an argument or reason urged by him in support of

In the civil law. The alteration of a law by the passage of one in- consistent with it. Calvin.

In Roman law. Taking by the neck or collar; as a plaintiff was allowed to drag a reluctant defendant to court Adams, Rom. Ant. 242.

The main or open sea; the high sea; that portion of the sea which does not lie within the body of any country and is not subject to the territorial jurisdiction or