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OBTULIT SE

(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.

OCHIERN

In old Scotch law.A name of dignity; a freeholder. Skene de Verb. Sign.

OFFER

1. To bring to or before; to present for acceptance or rejection; to hold out or proffer; to make a proposal to; to exhibit something that may be taken or received or

OLEOMARGARINE

An artificial imitation of butter, made chiefly from animal fats. Its sale is prohibited or restricted by statute in several of the states. See Cook v. State, 110 Ala. 40, 20 South.

ON DEFAULT

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

ONOMASTIC

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.

OPINION

1. In the law of evidence, opinion is an inference or conclusion drawn by a witness from facts some of which are known to him and others assumed, or drawn from facts

ORAL

Uttered by the mouth or In words; spoken, not written.

ORDINANCE

A rule established by authority; a permanent rule of action; a ORDINANCE 859 ORDINES law or statute. In a more limited sense, the term Is used to designate the enactments of the

ORGILD

In Saxon law. Without recompense; as where no satisfaction was to be made for the death of a man killed, so that he was judged lawfully slain. Spelman.

OSTIA REGNI

Eat Gates of the kingdom. The ports of the kingdom of England are so called by Sir Matthew Hale. De Jure Mar. pt 2, c. 3. OSTIUM ECCLESI^ 862 OUT OF TIME

OUT OF THE STATE

In reference to rights, liabilities, or jurisdictions arising out of the common law, this phrase is equivalent to “beyond sea,” which see. In other con- nections, it means physically beyond the territorial

OUTRIDERS

In English law. Bailiffs- errant employed by sheriffs or their deputies to ride to the extremities of their counties or hundreds to summon men to the county or hundred court Wharton. OUTROPER

OVERLIVE

To survive; to live longer than another. Fiuch, Law, b. 1, c. 3, no. 58; 1 Leon. 1.

OYER

In old practice. Hearing; the hearing a deed read, which a party sued on a bond, etc., might pray or demand, and it was then read to him by the other party;

Other definitions

Insanity is a manifestation of disease of the brain, characterized by a general or partial derangement of oue or more faculties of the mind, and in which, while consciousness is not abolished,

OBLATIO

Lat In the civil law. A tender of money in payment of a debt made by debtor to creditor. Whatever is offered to the church by the pious. Calvin. Oblationes dicuntur qusecunque

OBSERVE

In the civil law. To perform that which has been prescribed by some law or usage. Dig. 1, 3, 32. See Marshall County T. Knoll, 102 Iowa, 573, 69 N. W. 1146.

OBVENTIO

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,

OCHLOCRACY

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

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