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  • ORANGEMEN
    A party in Ireland who keep alive the views of William of Orange. Wharton.
  • ORATOR
    The plaintiff in a cause or matter in chancery, when addressing or petitioning the court, used to style himself "or* ator," and, when a woman, "oratrix." But these terms have long gone into disuse, and the customary phrases now are "plaintiff" or "petitioner." In Roman law, the term denoted an More...
  • ORATRIX
    A female petitioner; a female plaintiff in a bill in chancery was formerly so called.
  • ORBATION
    Deprivation of one's parents or children, or privation in general. Little used.
  • ORCINUS LIBERTUS
    Lat In Roman law. A freedman who obtained his liberty by the direct operation of the will or testament of his deceased master was so called, being the freedman of the deceased, (orcinue) not of the hceres. Brown.
  • ORDAIN
    To institute or establish; to make an ordinance; to enact a constitution or law. Kepner v. Comm., 40 Pa. 124; U. S. v. Smith, 4 N. J. Law, 38.
  • ORDEAL
    The most ancient species of trial, in Saxon and old English law, being peculiarly distinguished by the appellation of "judicium Dei" or "judgment of God," it being supposed that supernatural intervention would rescue an Innocent person from the danger of physical harm to which he was exposed in this species More...
  • ORDEFFE OR ORDELFE
    A liberty whereby a man claims the ore found in his own land; also, the ore lying under land. Cowell.
  • ORDELS
    In old English law. The right of administering oaths and adjudging trials by ordeal within a precinct or liberty. Cowell.
  • ORDENAMIENTO
    In Spanish law. An order emanating from the sovereign, and differing from a cedula only in form and in the mode of its promulgation. Schm. Civil Law, Introd. 93, note.
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