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  • ONERANDO PRO RATA PORTIONIS
    A writ that lay for a joint tenant or tenant In common who was distrained for more rent than his proportion of the land comes to. Reg. Orig. 182.
  • ONERARI NON
    In pleading. The name of a plea, in an action of debt, by which the defendant says that he ought not to be charged.
  • ONERATIO
    Lat A lading; a cargo.
  • ONERATUR NISI
    See O. Nr.
  • ONERIS FERENDI
    Lat In the civil law. The servitude of support; a servitude by which the wall of a house is required to sustain the wall or beams of the adjoining house.
  • ONEROUS
    A contract, lease, share, or other right is said to be "onerous" when the obligations attaching to it counter-balance or exceed the advantage to be derived from it, either absolutely or with reference to the particular possessor. Sweet. As used in the civil law and In the systems derived from More...
  • ONOMASTIC
    A term applied to the signature of an instrument, the body of which is in a different handwriting from that of the signature.. Beet, Ev. 315.
  • ONROERENDE AND VAST STAAT
    Dutch. Immovable and fast estate, that is, land or real estate. The phrase Is used in Dutch wills, deeds, and antenuptial contracts of the early colonial period in New York. See Spraker v. Van Alstyne, 18 Wend. (N. Y.) 208.
  • ONUS
    Lat A burden or load; a weight The lading, burden, or cargo of a vessel. A charge; an incumbrance. Cum onere, (q. v.) with the incumbrance. -Onus episeopale. Ancient customary payments from the clergy to their diocesan bishop, of synodals, pentecostals, etc.-Onus impor-tandL The charge of importing merchandise, mentioned in More...
  • OPE OONSILIO
    Lat By aid and counsel. A civil law term applied to accessaries, similar in import to the "aiding and abetting" ,of ,the common law. Often written "ope et consilio." BurrUl.
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