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  • OR
    A term used in heraldry, and signifying gold; called "sol" by some heralds when it occurs in the arms of princes, and "topas" or "carbuncle" when borne by peers. Engravers represent it by an indefinite number of small points. Wharton.
  • ORA
    A Saxon coin, valued at sixteen pence, and sometimes at twenty pence.
  • ORACULUM
    In the civil law. The name of a kind of response or sentence given by the Roman emperors.
  • ORAL
    Uttered by the mouth or In words; spoken, not written. -Oral contract. One which is partly in writing and partly depends on spoken words, or none of which is in writing; one which, in so far as it has been reduced to writing, is incomplete or expresses only a part More...
  • ORANDO PRO REGE ET REGNO
    An ancient writ which issued, while there was no standing collect for a sitting parliament, to pray for the peace and good government of the realm.
  • 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.
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