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Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia

For all; containing two or more independent matters. Applied to a count in a declaration, and to a bill of legislation, and perhaps to a clause in a will, which comprises more than one general subject.

Yeager v. Weaver, 04 Pa. 428; Parkinson v. State, 14 Md. 193, 74 Am. Dec. 522.

See In Omnibus. OMNIUM (Lat.). In Mercantile Law. A term used to express the aggregate value of the different stock in which a loan is usually funded.

2 Esp. 301; 7 Term 030. ON.

As denoting contiguity or neighborhood, it may denote near to as well as at; Burnam v. Banks, 45 Mo. 349; and has been held to be interchangeable with upon.

Sutton v. Com., 85 Ya. 128, 7 S. E. 323.

It is not equivalent to immediately on; Masters v. McIIolland, 12 Kan. 25. ON ACCOUNT OF WHOM IT MAY CON-