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“Office” is defined to be a right to exercise a public or private employment, and to take the fees and emoluments thereunto belonging, whether public, as those of magistrates, or private, as

A code of maritime laws published at the island of Oleron in the twelfth century by Eleanor of Gui- enne. They were adopted in England successively under Richard I., Henry III., and

Filed; entered or placed upon the files; existing aud remaining upon or among the proper files. Slosson v. Hall, 17 Minn. 95 (Gil. 71); Snider v. Methvin, 60 Tex. 487.

v. To render accessible, visible, or available; to submit or subject to examina- tion, inquiry, or review, by the removal of restrictions or impediments.

A public officer who unlawfully uses his authority by way of oppres- sion, (q. v.)

To institute or establish; to make an ordinance; to enact a constitution or law. Kepuer v. Comm., 40 Pa. 124; U. S. v. Smith, 4 N. J. Law, 38.

In old English law. Those of the religious who deserted their houses, and, throwing off the habits, renounced their particular order in eon- tempt of their oath and other obligations. 1’aroeli. Antiq.

The claws of a dog’s foot. Kitch.

The twelfth part; the twelfth part of a pound troy or the sixteenth part of a pound avoirdupois.

Any house necessary for the purposes of life, in which the owner does not make his constant or principal residence, is an outhouse. State v. O’Brien, 2 Root (Conn.) 516. A smaller

In old English law. Equality.

Something unpaid. A debt, for example, is owing while it is unpaid, aud whether it be due or not. Coquard v. Bank of Kansas City, 12 Mo. App. 261; Mus- selman v.

In old European law. Voluntary slaves of churches or monasteries.

The character or quality of beiug obscene; conduct tending to corrupt the public morals by its indecency or lewdness. State v. l’feuuiuger, 76 Mo. App. 313; U. S. v. Loftis (I>. C.)

Lat. In the civil law. Rent; profits; Income; the return from an investment or thing owned; as the earnings of a vessel. In old English law. The revenue of a spiritual living,

Governmentby the multitude. A form of government wherein the populace has the whole power and administration in its own hands.

The incumbent of an office; one who is lawfully invested with an office. One who is charged by a superior power (and particularly by government) with the power and duty of exercising

A form of government wherein the administration of affairs is lodged in the hands of a few persons.

A phrase used in reciting the date of an occurrence or conveyance, to escape the necessity of being bound by the statement of an exact date.

In American practice. Tlie beginning; the commencement; the first ad- dress of the counsel.