Law Dictionary

Officit conatus si effectus sequatur. The attempt becomes of consequence, If the effect follows. Jenk. Cent. 55. Officium nemini debet esse damnosum. Office ought not to be an occa

A testament by which a testator leaves his property to his family. Sandars, Just. Inst. 207. See "Inofficious Testament." OFFICIT CONATUS SI EFFECTUS OFFICIUM NEi VliNI DEBET ESSE

An attempt works injury if the effect follows.

An office.

An office ought to be no one's ruin.

A writ to stay the installation or removal of an officer.

The term “off mode” means the condition in which an energy-using product— (I) is connected to a main power source; and (II) is not providing any standby or active mode function.

In force; extant; not obsolete; existing as a binding or obligatory power.

The term “off-road vehicle” means any motorized vehicle designed for, or capable of, cross-country travel on or immediately over land, water, sand, snow, ice, marsh, swampland, or

For purposes of subsection (b)(2), the term “offset” means, with respect to any taxable year, an amount equal to that increase in the operations loss deduction for the taxable year

the term “offset agreement” means an agreement, arrangement, or understanding between a United States supplier of defense articles or defense services and a foreign country under w

The term “offset plan” means any plan with respect to which the benefit attributable to employer contributions for each participant is reduced by an amount specified in the plan.

The term “offsetting notional principal contract” means, with respect to any property, an agreement which includes— (A) a requirement to pay (or provide credit for) all or substant

the drilling of 'offset wells' at the boundary of each surface tract, so that owners may protect themselves against the exercise of one another's capture rights

The term “offshore banking license” means a license to conduct banking activities which, as a condition of the license, prohibits the licensed entity from conducting banking activi

“offshore facility” means any facility of any kind located in, on, or under, any of the navigable waters of the United States, any facility of any kind which is subject to the juri

The term “offshore lease sale” means an oil and gas lease sale— (A) that is held by the Secretary in accordance with the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act ( 43 U.S.C. 1331 et seq.)

The term “offshore State” means a sugarcane producing State located outside of the continental United States.

“offshore supply vessel” means a motor vessel that regularly carries goods, supplies, individuals in addition to the crew, or equipment in support of exploration, exploitation, or

The term “offshore whiting resource” means the transboundary stock of Merluccius productus that is located in the offshore waters of the United States and Canada except in Puget So

The term "offshore wind foundation" means the component (including transition piece) which secures an offshore wind tower and any above-water turbine components to the se

The term “off-site consequence analysis information” means those portions of a risk management plan, excluding the executive summary of the plan, consisting of an evaluation of 1 o

The term “off-site incineration” means any incineration of radioactive materials at a facility that is located off the site where such materials were generated.

The word offspring in its proper and natural sense extends to any degree of lineal descendants and has the same meaning as issue. 32 L. J. Ch. 373.

In this subsection, the term “off-system bridge” means a highway bridge or low water crossing (as defined by the Secretary) located on a public road, other than a bridge or low wat

“off-track betting office” means any location within an off-track State at which off-track wagers are accepted;

“off-track betting system” means any group which is in the business of accepting wagers on horseraces at locations other than the place where the horserace is run, which business i

the extent to which the rear wheels of a truck deviate from the path of the front wheels while turning.

“off-track racing commission” means that person designated by State statute or, in the absence of statute, by regulation, with jurisdiction to regulate off-track betting in that St

“off-track State” means the State in which an interstate off-track wager is accepted;

A term applied to any permission or license granted to a party in the course of a judicial proceeding which is not claimable as a matter of course or of right, but is allowed by th

An officer of the Duchy court, who collects all the revenues, fines, forfeitures, and assessments within the duchy. RECEIVER GENERAL OF THE PUBLIC

Multa ignoramus que non laterent, si veterum Lectio nobis esset familiaris. Macrobius.

A Scotch expression, closely translated from the Latin "de novo" (q. v.). OFFA EXECRATA (Law Lat.) In old

An exchange of chattels is a transfer thereof for other chattels. This is commonly called "barter." Exchange of real estate is a mutual grant of equal interests in land, the one in

Recorded; entered on the records ; existing and remaining In or upon the appropriate records.

The choice between two or more coexisting and inconsistent remedies for the same wrong. 2 Story, Eq. Jur. § 1078. Between Criminal Charges. The choice by a public' prosecutor upon

The act of a person in possession, who denies holding the estate of the person who claims to be the owner. 2 Nev. & M. 672. An affirmation, by pleading or otherwise, in a court of

the party 'owing' the money stops paying it and justifies his conduct by arguing that the recipient is not legally entitled to payment.

all persons of the blood, whether of the whole or half blood.

The most important species of guardian in modem law, having custody of the infant until the attainment of full age. It has in England in a manner superseded the guardian in socage,

and other military orders, in England, is an officer who seals the commissions and the mandates of the chapter and assembly of the knights, keeps the register of their proceedings,

In American law. A court of eriminai jurisdiction in the state of Pennsylvania, having power to try misdemeanors, and exercising certain functions of an adwinistrative nature. Ther

In English Law. A court constituted for the trial of scholars or privileged persons connected with the university of Oxford or Cambridge who are indicted for treason, felony, or ma

comm. law, denominations of money of Spain. In the ad valorem duty upon goods, dc. the former are computed at ten cents, and the latter at five cents each. Act of March 2, 1799, s.

450, 24 L. Ed. 752; Clark v. Barnard, 108 U. S. 436, 2 Sup. Ct. 878, 27 L. Ed. 780; Martin v. R. Co., 151 U. S. 673, 14 Sup. Ct 533, 38 L. Ed. 311; Louisville. N. A. & C. R. Co. v.

On account of; because of; by reason of.

Sax. [from child, and wite, a fine.] In Saxon law. The right which a lord had of taking a fine of his bondwoman gotten with child without his license. Termes de la ley. Cowell. Or,

As to death ot patient by accident, see 21 Cent. Law J. 267-69 (1886), cases. > Roosa V. Boston Loan Co., 132 Mass. 439 (1882). 2 Madden v. Blain, 66 Ga. 49 (1880). ' Landon v. Hum

“oil” means oil of any kind or in any form, including, but not limited to, petroleum, fuel oil, sludge, oil refuse, and oil mixed with wastes other than dredged spoil; / The term “

The term "oil and gas extraction taxes" means any income, war profits, and excess profits tax paid or accrued (or deemed to have been paid under section 960) during the t

By virtue of the lease, the lessee acquires the privilege of exploiting the land for the production of oil and gas for a prescribed period; he may explore, drill, and produce oil a

“oil or gas” means any oil or gas originating from, or allocated to, the Outer Continental Shelf, Federal, or Indian lands;

the right to a specified sum of money, payable out of a specified percentage of the oil, or the proceeds received from the sale of such oil, if, as and when produced

The right to oil payments—that is, the right to a specified sum of money, payable out of a specified percentage of the oil, or the proceeds received from the sale of such oil, if,

For purposes of this paragraph, the term “oil related qualified production activities income” means for any taxable year the qualified production activities income which is attribu

The term “oilseed” means a crop of soybeans, sunflower seed, rapeseed, canola, safflower, flaxseed, mustard seed, or, if designated by the Secretary, other oilseeds.

As used in this section, the term “oilseeds” means soybeans, sunflower seed, canola, rapeseed, safflower, flaxseed, mustard seed, and such other oilseeds as the Secretary may deter

“oil spill response vessel” means a vessel that is designated in its certificate of inspection as such a vessel, or that is adapted to respond to a discharge of oil or a hazardous

Same as Oyer.

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

A mark signifying the approval of the maker of it. See 149 Mass. 459, 14 Am. St. Rep. 439, 21 N. E. 765.

In Scotch law. Usury; the taking of interest for money, contrary to law. Bell.

One of the United States, admitted to the Union November 10, 1907. By tho enabling Act of June 16, 1906, a constitution was adopted and a state government established covering the

For the purposes of this subchapter, the term “old-age assistance” means money payments to, or (if provided in or after the third month before the month in which the recipient make

A prison in London, so called from the ancient bailey between Ludgate and Newgate. Bailey was the external wall of defence about a feudal castle.

“old capital investment” means a capital investment the capitalized cost of which— (A) was incurred, but not repaid, before October 1, 1996, and (B) was for a project, facility, or

The term “older child adoption and older foster child guardianship” means the final adoption, or the placement into foster child guardianship (as defined in paragraph (12)) of a ch

The term “older child adoption and older foster child guardianship rate” means, with respect to a State and a fiscal year, the percentage determined by dividing— (A) the number of

The term “older individual” means an individual age 55 or older. / The term "older individual" means an individual age 55 or older. / The term “older individual” means an

For purposes of this part, the term “older individual who is blind” means an individual age 55 or older whose significant visual impairment makes competitive employment extremely d

The term "older relative caregiver" means a caregiver who— (A) (i) is age 55 or older; and (ii) lives with, is the informal provider of in-home and community care to, and

Definition.—In this section, the term “old fund” means a capital construction fund maintained before October 21, 1970.

The term “old loss corporation” means any corporation— (A) with respect to which there is an ownership change, and (B) which (before the ownership change) was a loss corporation.

A list compiled under Edward III of the writs in common use.

The title of a treatise written in the reign of Edward III. containing the writs which were then most in use, annexing to each a short comment concerning their nature and the appli

The term “old Schedules” means title I of the Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. 1202) as in effect on the day before the effective date of the amendment to such title under section 120

the "potent weapon" of civil con- tempt.

See "New Style."

The title of a small tract, which, as its title denotes, contains an account of the various tenures by which land was holden in the reign of Edward III. This tract was published in

The term “old well” means any well other than a new well.

The terms “organic light-emitting diode” and “OLED” mean a thin-film light-emitting device that typically consists of a series of organic layers between 2 electrical contacts (elec

All substances heretofore known as oleomargarine, oleo, oleomargarine oil, butterine, lardine, suine, and neutral; all mixtures and compounds of oleomargarine, oleo, olemargarine o

LAWS OF. A maritime code promulgated by Eleanor, duchess of Guienne, mother of Richard I., at the Isle of Oleron, — whence their name. They were modified and enacted in England und

A government by a few.

March 4, 1796; resigned, from Paris, November, 1800. Bushrod Washington, September 29, 1795; recommissioned December 20, 1798; died November 26, 1829. Alfred Moore, December 10, 17

A term which signifies that an instrument is wholly written by the party frflm whom it emanates. See Civ. Code La. art. 1581; Civ. Code, 970; 5 Tou Uier, Dr. Civ. note 357; 1 Stuar

The olographic testament is that which is written by the testator himself. In order to be valid it must be entirely written, dated, and signed by the hand of the testator. It is su

One that is entirely written, dated and signed by the hand of the testator himself. Belcher, 100 Cal. 207. OM, or OMIVIE (Law Fr.) Man; a man or person. Corrupted forms of "home" (

A Grecian epoch; the space of four years.

The term “OMB” means the Director of the Office of Management and Budget. / The term "OMB" means the Office of Management and Budget.

O&M Budget Activity Defined.—In this section, the term “O&M budget activity” means a budget activity within an operation and maintenance appropriation of the Department of

“Ombudsman” means the Small Business and Agriculture Regulatory Enforcement Ombudsman designated under subsection (b). / The term "Ombudsman" means the individual describ

(Spanish) A good or responsible man.

The term "omics" refers to the collective technologies used to explore the roles, relationships, and actions of the various types of molecules that make up the cells and

Omission.

The omission of those things which are tacitly implied effects nothing.

The omission of those things which are tacitly implied is of no consequence. 2 Bulst. 131.

Neglect to perform an act required by law. OMISSIS OMNIBUS ALUS NEGOTIIS (Lat.) Laying aside all other businesses. 9 Bast, 347.

Putting aside all other business.