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  • OTER LA TOUAILLE
    In the laws of Oleron. To deny a seaman his mess. Literally, to deny the table-cloth or victuals for three meals.
  • OTHESWORTHE
    In Saxon law. Oaths worth; oathworthy; worthy or entitled to make oath. Bract fols. 185, 292b.
  • OUGHT
    This word, though generally directory only, will be taken as mandatory if the context requires it Life Ass'n v. St Louis County Assessors, 49 Mo. 518.
  • OUNCE
    The twelfth part; the twelfth part of a pound troy or the sixteenth part of a pound avoirdupois.
  • OUNCE LANDS
    Certain districts or tracts of lands in the Orkney Islands were formerly so called, because each paid an annual tax of one ounce of silver.
  • OURLOP
    The lierwite or fine paid to the lord by the inferior, tenant when his daughter was debauched. Cowell.
  • OUST
    To put out; to eject; to remove or deprive; to deprive of the possession or enjoyment of an estate or franchise.
  • OUSTER
    In practice. A putting out; dispossession; amotion of possession. A species of injuries to things real, by which the wrong-doer gains actual occupation of the land, and compels the rightful owner to seek his legal remedy in order to gain possession. 2 Crabb, Real Prop. p. 1063, ft 2454a. See More...
  • OUSTER LE MAIN
    L. Fr. Literally, out of the hand. 1. A delivery of lands out of the king's hands by judgment given in favor of the petitioner in a monstrous de droit. 2. A delivery of the ward's lands out of the hands of the guardian, on the former arriving at the More...
  • OUSTER LE MER
    L. Fr. Beyond the sea; a cause of excuse if a person, being summoned, did not appear in court Cowell.
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