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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

A crime or misdemeanor; a breach of the criminal laws. Moore v. Illinois, 14 How. 13, 14 L. Ed. 306; lilies v. Knight, 3 Tex. 312; People v. French. 102 N. Y.

The ancient calendar or method of reckoning time, whereby the year commenced on March 25th. It was superseded by the new style (that now in use) iD most countries of Europe in

These words may be construed to mean “on the terms,” in order to effectuate the intention of parties. Mea- nor v. McKowan, 4 Watts & S. (Pa.) 302.

A term applied to the signature of an instrument, the body of which is in a different handwriting from that of the signature. Best, Ev. 315.

An old word for “opponent.”

A female petitioner; a female plaintiff in a bill in chancery was formerly so called.

A writ that lay against a servant for leaving his master contrary to the ordinance of St. 23 & 24 Edw. III. Reg. Orig. 189.

Any person (but particularly a minor or infant) who has lost both (or one) of his or her parents. More particularly, a fatherless child. Soohan v. Philadelphia, 33 Pa. 24; Poston v.

In the laws of Oleron. To deny a seaman his mess. Literally, to deny the table-cloth or victuals for three meals.

The name given to the great hall of the parliament house in Edinburgh, in which the lords ordinary of the court of session sit as single judges to hear causes. The term

In French law. The right of succession which arises to one upon the death, whether nat- ural or civil, of auother.

Open; manifest; public; issuing in action, as distinguished from that which rests merely intention or design.

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