OWELTY
Equality. This word is used in law in several compound phrases, as fol- lows: 1. Owelty of partition is a sum of money paid by one of two coparceners or cotenants to
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Equality. This word is used in law in several compound phrases, as fol- lows: 1. Owelty of partition is a sum of money paid by one of two coparceners or cotenants to
In old English law. Scolds or unquiet women, punished with the cucking-stool.
Lewd; impure; indecent; calculated to shock the moral sense of man by a disregard of chastity or modesty. Tim- inous v. U. S., 85 Fed. 205, 30 C. C. A. 74 ;
(Offered himself.) In old practice. The emphatic words of entry on the record where one party offered himself in court against the other, and the latter did not appear. 1 Reeve, Eng.
In old Scotch law.A name of dignity; a freeholder. Skene de Verb. Sign.
“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.