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  • OUTFIT
    1. An allowance made by the United States government to one of its diplomatic representatives going abroad, for the expense of his equipment. This term, in its original use, as applying to ships, embraced those objects connected with a ship which were necessary for the sailing of her, and without More...
  • OUTHEST, OR OUTHOM
    A calling men out to the army by sound of horn. Jacob.
  • OUTHOUSE
    Any house necessary for the purposes of life, in which the owner does not make his constant or principal residence, is an outhouse. State v. O'Brien, '2 Root "(Conn.) 516. A smaller or subordinate building connected with a dwelling, usually detached from it and standing at a little distance from More...
  • OUTLAND
    The Saxon thanes divided' their hereditary lands into inland, such as lay nearest their dwelling, which they kept' to their own use, and outland, which lay beyond the demesnes, and was granted out td tenants, at the will of the lord, like copyhold estates. This outland they subdivided into two More...
  • OUTLAW
    In English law. One who is put out of the protection or aid of the law.
  • OUTLAWED
    when applied to a promissory note, means barred by the statute of limitations. Drew v. Drew, 37 Me. 389.
  • OUTLAWRY
    In English law. A process by which a defendant or person in contempt on a civil or criminal process was declared an outlaw. If for treason or felony, It amounted to conviction, and attainder. Stim. Law Gloss. See Respublica v. Doan, 1 Dall. (Pa.) 86, 1 L. Ed. 47; Dale More...
  • OUTLOT
    In early American land law, (particularly in Missouri,) a lot or parcel of land lying outside the corporate limits of a town or village but subject to its municipal jurisdiction or control. See Kissell v. St. Louis Public Schools, 16 Mo. 592; St Louis v. Toney, 21 Mo. 243; Eberle More...
  • OUTPARTERS
    Stealers of cattle. Cowell.
  • OUTFITTERS
    Such as set watches for the robbing any manor-house. Cowell.
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