Observe
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
In civil law
To perform that which has been prescribed by some law or usage.
Dig. 1. 3. 32.
OBSES (Lat.) In the law of war.
A hostage
Grotius ffe Jure Belli, lib.
3, c. 20, § 52.
Obsides, hostages. Id. Magna Carta Johan. c.
49.
OBSESSUM (Lat. from obsidere, to besiege or block up). In the law of war.
Besieged.
Oppidum obsessum, a town besieged. Grotius de Jure Belli, lib.
3, c. 1, § 5; 1 Kent, Comm. 144.
OBSIGNARE (Lat.) In the civil law. To seal up, as money that had been tendered and refused.
Heinec.
Elem. Jur. Civ. lib.
3, tit. 30, § 1007.