Odhal
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence · Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
Complete property as opposed to feudal tenure. The transposition word allod or allodial. All-odh is thus put in contradistinction to fee-odh.
2 Bl. Com. 45, note; Mozky Sf W. OF.
An alteration of a bond, correcting it, by substituting in it the word " to " for " of," was held immaterial, both because it did not alter the meaning and construction of the bond, and because the condition was absurd witli " of " in the place of " to."
United States v. Hatch, 1 Paine, 336.
A deed, after mentioning in the description of one parcel of land conveyed a county road, conveyed also " all the land situate and lying north of the road aforesaid, bounded north of the heirs of M. C.'s land, and west on " another road distinctly identified. It was held that the words " bounded north of the heirs of M. C.'s land " must be construed as defining the northern boundary of the premises granted; either upon the ground that the word " of," in the clause, was used in its obsolete, but perfectly grammatical, meaning of " by," as in the familiar examples, " seen of men," " led of the spirit," " tempted of the devil; " or upon a presumption that the scrivener inadvertently repeated " of," which he had used correctly in previous boundaries, instead of substituting " on," as he should have done, conformably to a change of expression, and as he properly did in the boundary next following.
Hannum v. Kingsley, 107 Mass. 355.
An averment that a person named is "of" a specified county sufficiently imports that he is a resident of that county.
Porter v. Miller, 3 Wend. 329.
An assignment which directed the assignee to pay the respective debts " of " the creditors of the assignor, was sustained as meaning not the payment of debts owed by the creditors, but payment of debts owed to the creditors by the assignor. Pine v. Rikert, 21 Barb. 469, 475. " Of," in a contract to sell goods of another, was held equivalent to " manufactured by another," in Powell c.
Horton, 2 Bing. N. Cas. 668.
Of course. Steps in the proceedings in a suit are said to be taken or allowed as of course, as when they are so much a matter of established routine that no application to the court depending on any argument and judicial deliberation is necessary.