A Law Dictionary and Glossary

I. I, In old English law. An area or space lying within the enclosure of a dw^elling-house.

A declaration or promise before some authorized ofl Bcer corroborated by an appeal to God, and accompanied by some outward manual act or foi*m, as touching or kissing the Gospels,

I In the Roman law. A debtor who was obliged to serve his creditor till his debt was discharged.

l. I. Obedience; submission; a kind of rent Obedientia est legis essentia: obedience is the essence of law. In the canon law. An office, or the administration of an offica

I. In old English law. He dies; a funeral solemnity, or office for the dead; the anniversary of a person's death; the aniversary office. V. Post.

I By the way; in passing. Obiter dictnm: an opinion of a

A thing aimed at; an end sought to be accomplished; a thing presented to the mind or the senses.

I. Gifts or oflferings to the crown, anciently a regular source of royal revenue.

I. In the chnl law. An action given to a party against another who had offered to him a stolen thing, found in his passession.

1. In the civil law. An offering or tender of money by u. debtor to his creditor, in payment of the debt.

l.fr. Obligation. Obligacion est na lien de droit: obligation is a bond of law.

Lat. In the civil and old English law. Obligation; a bond or writing obligatory. Obligatio est juris vinculum, quo necessitate astringimur ad aliquod dandum vel faciendum: obligati

A tie, a thing which binds; a legal duty or liability; an undertaking under seal; the instrument by which such an undertaking is witnessed; a bond or writing in the nature of a bon

' The party to whom another is bound; the party to whom abond is given.

A party who binds himself, as by a bond; the party by whom' a bond is given.

Z. In the civil law. A kind of rent, or income.

In old English law. The rents or revenues of spiritual livings.

I In the civil law. To make a law contrary to a former law;. to change a former law.

Grown out of use; disused; antiquated.

I. Withstanding; hindering, v. Non obstante.

I. Withstand the beginnings.

Z. I. In old English law. To stop up. Obstnparit et obstruxit: stopped and obstructed.

I. To obey. Obtemperandnm est consaetiidini rationabili tanqnam legi, l A reasonable custom is to be obeyed as law.

I. In old English law. Offered himself; the emphatic words of entry on the record where one party offered himself iu court against the other, and the latter did not appear.

1 1. In old English law. Molestation; hindrance; vexation by suit

I L In old English law. To molest; to vex or harass with

I. In the cicil law. A taking possession of a thing which before belonged to nobody.

I. In old English law. A hiding. Occnltatlo thesauri in- Tenti fraud niosa: the fraudulent concealment of treasure trova

The taking of possession of those things which before belonged to nobody; the taking of possession by any one of a thing of which there is no owner; the right acquired by such taki

In a general sense, one who takes possession of a thing of which there is no owner; one who takes possession of a thing which has been abandoned. In a special sense, one who takes

I In the civil law. To seize or take possession of; to enter upon a vacant possession; to take possession before another.

In old 'English law. The putting a man out of his freehold in time of war; use, tenure or possession; usurpation of a franchise: a trade or business.

I. I. In old English law. A writ that lay for one who was ejected from his land or tenement in time of war.

I To meet: to run against; to stop or bar.

In old English law. The eighth day after a feast; one of the return days.

the ides fell on the 15th; and in the law. An instrument privately executed, instrument executed before a public officer. mind in which the reflective, and all or a powers are eith

I. I. In old English law. Eight such; a writ issued to the sheriff to summon eight such men as were summoned on the first panel, to make up a deficiency of jurors.

I. Odious things are not presumed. (Economlcus, 1. 1. In old English law. The executor of a will. (Economus, /. In the civil law. A manager or administrator. (Eps, «es, I. fr. Use.

I. To bear or carry; to without words; to manage, or to act as heir.

In Saxon law. A pecuniary compensation for an injury, eight times the value of the thing.

I I. In old English law. The morsel of execration; the corsned, q. v.

An act committed against a law, or omitted where the law requires it, and punishes for the omission; a crime.

One who holds an ofl Sce; a person lawfully invested with an office. Officer de facto: one who colore offlcii assumes to exercise official authority. Officer de jure: a rightful of

An officer; iu English ecclesiastical law, the person to whom the archdeacon substitutes in the execution of his jurisdiction. In the civil law. The minister or apparitor of a magi

Pertaining to an office, or the function of an office, as an official act, bond, certificate, oath, etc.

/. A shop; a workshop. Officina bre Tlnm: the shop of writs. Officina justitlsB: the shop or mint of justice; a name anciently given to the court of chancery, or rather to the lega

Z. Office. In Scots law. Officinm ncmini debet esse damnosnin: office ought not tQ be an occasion of loss to any one.

21, In the civil law. To pass over; to leave out; to neglect; to refuse.

v. Natura Brevium. Old statutes: v. Vetera statuta. Old tenures: a brief treatise on tenures, written in the reign of Edward IIL

laws of. A collefction of maritime law promulgated in or about the time of Richard I. in the island of 0,leron, off the French coast, either by Richard or under direction of his mo

Z. Omission; a leaving out Omlssio eorum qusi tacite insunt nihil operatnr: the omission of those things which are tacitly implied is of no consequence.

L Laying aside all other businesses.

I To all; to all persona Omnibus ad quos praesentes literae pervenerint, salutcm: to all to whom the present letters shall come, greeting; a form of address with which charters bot

I. Superior to all exception; beyond all exception.

Once put in peril of legal penalties. See Autrefois. Once a mortgage, always a mortgage: means that the right of redemption, in equity regarded as an inseparable incident to a mort

I. To burden or charge; to lade or load.

i I. Ought not to be charged; a form of beginning of a

In Scots law. A good and legal consideration. Onerous deed: a deed given for a valuable consideration.

A term applied to the signature of an instrument, the body of which is in the handwriting of another.

I. A burden, or load; a weight; the lading gr cargo of a vessel; a charge; an incumbrance. Onus probandi: the burden 6t proving. V. Actori, etc.; Cum onere.

ope et consilio, I. In the civil law. By aid and counsel; a term applied to accessories in the cofnmission of crimes, of import similar to " aiding and abetting.''

To commence or begin; to enter upon; to vacate, or set aside; to undo or recall; to proclaim, to explain; to clear of obstructions. Open a decree, open a judgement: to set aside a

Manifest; apparent; outward; overt; public; not concealed; not closed, settled or fixed. Open account: an unsettled account between two persons having dealings with one anothet. Op

I In the civil law. A protest or warning against [of] a new work.

I. Opinion. Opinio quse favet testamento est tencnda: the opinion which favors a will is to be followed. Opinio comuiunis or vulgaris: common opinion; general or prevalent opinion,

I. It behooves; it is needful or necessary. Oportet quod certa res dedu Catur in donationem: it is necessary that a certain thing be brought into the gift, or made the subject of t

I. In the civil law. To pledge.

In old English law. An officer in the court of exchequer. Upposita Juxta se posita magi.s elucescnnt, I. Opposite things when placed near each other (in juxtaposition) appear in a

I. Custom is the best interpreter of laws. Optimus interpres rerum usus: use or usage is the best interpreter of things.

Right of choice. Option contract: a contract of sale so called by which the property is not to be delivered, but the transaction is to be closed on a future day, by the payment by

In old English law. That species of original writ, otherwise called a praecipe, which was framed in the alternative, commanding the defendant to do the thing required, or show caus

/. I. In old English law. Benefit; advantage; work; labor. Opus maniflcum: labor done by the hands: manual labor. In the civil law. Work; labor; a thing made or done by labor. Opus

In spoken words. Oral pleading: pleading by word of moutli, in the actual presence of the court, which was the ancient mode of pleading in England, and continued to the reign of Ed

I. In old English law. The meaning of an instrument, as distinguished from the mere words. Oratrix: a female

An ancient mode of trial by the judgment of God, — the accused handling hot iron, or plunging his arm into hot water, or the like, upon the theory that he would escape unhurt accor

An informal writing requesting the payment of money, or the delivery of personalty, to the beai-er or to a person named; a direction in writing, granted by a court or judge, requir

In American law. An act or regulation of congress; a law or regulation of a municipal corporation. Ordinance of 1787: the ordinance for the government of the territory northwest of

1. 1. In old English law. To ordain; to establish; to make a law; to appoint; to practice. Ordinavit: he (the king) ordained. Ordinatlim: ordained.

2. In the dvil law. Ordinary; regular; according to usual course and rule.

In American law. A judicial officer having the powers of a judge of probate, or surrogate. In English law. An ecclesiastical judge who has the regular ordinary jurisdiction, indepe

Common; usual; reasonable. Ordinary care: the care which men of ordinary prudence and judgment commonly exercisa Ordinary skill: the skill which men engaged in the art in question

L An ordinance; the title of several ancient English statutes. Ordinatio Torestse: Ordinance of the Forest; a statute passed tlement of Ireland; a statute passed 17 Edw. I., contai

I. I. In old English law. It is ordered; the initial words of rules of court when entered in Latin.

I. fr. A rule or order; a regulation.

servatur et jus, I. When the order of pleading is observed, the law also is observed.

ordyner, I. fr. To ordain; to establish.

/. In the civil law. The benefit or privilege of order; the privilege of a surety to have his principal thoroughly prosecuted before the creditor could resort to him.

Z. In old English law. Order; regular succession. Ordo agendi: the order of suing. Ordo attachiamentorum: the order of attachments. Ordo brevium: the order of writs. Ordo curlse: a

/. fr. Now. Ore est a veyer: now it is to be seen.

I. We create. One of the words by which a corporation was formerly created by the king.

To inquire into; to review

I. By word of mouth; orally.

Principal; primary; first in order of time. Original bill: in equity pleading, a bill which relates to some matter not before litigated in the court by the same persons standing in

In the law of patents, the contriving, creating or finding out of that which was not known and did not exist, and which can be used or enjoyed by man.

I. The origin of a thing ought to be regarded.

I. In old English law. Shows to you; formal words beginning a count.

A partner whose name appears to the world as a partner.

I. fr. To take away; to take out or off. Oste del file: taken off the file.

I. I. In old English law. ' The door or porch of the church, where dower was anciently conferred.

o. eng. Oathsworth; oathworthy; worthy or entitled to make oath. Ou, I. fr. Or; where; whether; whereas; whereto; with; within; in.