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Omnibus

Defined in 2 dictionaries — Bouvier (1914), Kinney (1893)

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia

John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914

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-

A Law Dictionary and Glossary

George C. Kinney · 1893

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 both public and private, (deeds) and other instruments were anciently commenced. Omnibus prseseutes literas visuris vel audituris, salutern: to all who shall see or hear the present letters, greeting.