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  • ON DEFAULT
    In case of default; upon failure of stipulated action or performance; upon the occurrence of a failure, omission, oor neglect of duty.
  • ON DEMAND
    A promissory note payable "on demand" is a present debt, and Is payable without any demand. Young v. Weston, 39 Me. 492; Appeal of Andreas, 99 Pa . 421.
  • ON FILE
    Filed; entered or placed upon the files; existing and remaining upon or among the proper files. Slosson v. Hall, 17 Minn. 95 (Gil. 71); Snider v. Methvin, 60 Tex. 487.
  • ON OR ABOUT
    A phrase used in reciting the date of an occurrence or conveyance, to escape the necessity of being bound by the statement of an exact date.
  • ON OR BEFORE
    These words, inserted in a stipulation to do an act or pay money, entitle the party stipulating to perform at any time before the day; and upon performance, or tender and refusal, he is immediately vested with all the rights which would have attached if performance were made on the More...
  • ONCE A MORTGAGE, ALWAYS A MORTGAGE
    This rule signifles that an instrument originally Intended as a mortgage, and not a deed, cannot be converted into anything else than a mortgage by any subsequent clause or agreement. Onoe a recompense, always a recompense. 19 Vin. Abr. 277.
  • ONCE IN JEOPARDY
    A phrase used to express the condition of a person charged with crime, who has once already, by legal proceedings, been put in danger of conviction and punishment for the same offense. See Com. v. Fitzpatrick, 121 Pa. 109, 15 Atl. 466, 1 L. R. A. 451, 6 Am. St. More...
  • ONCUNNE
    L. Fr. Accused. Du Cange.
  • ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND POUNDS CLAUSE
    A precautionary stipulation inserted in a deed making a good tenant to the prweipe in a common recovery. See 1 Prest. Conv. 110.
  • ONE-THIRD NEW FOR OLD
    See NEW FOR OLD.
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