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  • OSTENDIT VOBIS
    Lat In old pleading. Shows to you. Formal words with which a demandant began his count. Fleta, lib. 5, c. 38, 5 2.
  • OSTENSIBLE AGENCY
    An implied or presumptive agency, which exists where one, either intentionally or from want of ordinary care, induces another to believe that a third person is his agent though he never in fact employed him. Bibb v. Bancroft (Cal.) 22 Pac. 484; First Nat. Bank v. Elevator Co., 11 N. More...
  • OSTENSIBLE PARTNER
    A partner whose name is made known and appears to the world as a partner, and who is'in reality such.- Story, Partn. { 80.
  • OSTENSIO
    A tax anciently paid by merchants, etc., for leave to show or expose their goods for sale in markets. Du Cange.
  • OSTENTUM
    Lat In the civil law. A monstrous or prodigious birth. Dig. 50, 16, 38.
  • OSTEOPATHY
    A method or system of treating various diseases of the human body without the use of drugs, by manipulation applied to various nerve centers, rubbing, pulling, and kneading parts of the body, flexing and manipulating the limbs, and the mechanical readjustment of any bones, muscles, or ligaments not in the More...
  • OSTIA REGNI
    Lat. Gates of the kingdom. The ports of the kingdom of England are so called by Sir Matthew Hale. De Jure Mar. pt 2, c. 3.
  • OSTIUM ECCLESIAE
    Lat. In old English law. The door or porch of the church, where dower was anciently conferred.
  • OSWALD'S LAW
    The law by which was effected the ejection of married priests, and the introduction of monks into churches, by Oswald, bishop of Worcester, about A. D. 064. Wharton.
  • OSWALD'S LAW HUNDRED
    An ancient hundred in Worcestershire, so called from Bishop Oswald, who obtained it from King Edgar, to be given to St. Mary's Church in Worcester. It was exempt from the sheriff's jurisdiction, and comprehends 300 hides of land. CamL Brit
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