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Optulit

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

An old form of obtulit, used in Bracton, Bracton, fols.

354, 354b.

OPUS (Lat. and Law Lat.) In civil and old English law. Work; labor; benefit; advantage. This word seems to have been framed from the Law French oeps (q. v.) A thing made or done by labor. OPUS LOCATUM (Lat.) In civil law. A work, i. e., the result of work, let to another to be used. A work, i. e., something to be completed by work, hired to be done by another.

Vicat, "Opus," "Locare;" L. 51, § 1, D. "Locat.;" L. 1, § 1, D. ad leg.

Rhod. OPUS MAGNIFICIUM (or MANIFICIUM) (from Lat. opus, work; manus, hand).

In old English law

Manual labor. Fleta, lib.

2, c. 48, §3.