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  • OUTRAGE
    Injurious violence, or, in general, any species of serious wrong offered to the person, feelings, or rights of another. See McKinley v. Railroad Ca, 44 Iowa, 314, 24 Am. Rep. 748; Aldrich v. Howard, 8 It I. 246; Mosnat v. Snyder, 105 Iowa, 500, 75 N. W. 356
  • OUTRIDERS
    In English law. Bailiffs errant employed by sheriffs or their deputies to ride to the extremities of their counties or hundreds to summon men to the county or hundred court Wharton.
  • OUTROPER
    A person to whom the business of selling by auction was confiued by statute. 2 H. Bl. 557.
  • OUTSETTER
    In Scotch law. Publisher. 3 How. State Tr. 003.
  • OUTSTANDING
    1. Remaining undischarged; unpaid; uncollected; as an outstanding debt 2. Existing as an adverse claim or pretension ; not united with, or merged in, the title or claim of the party; as an outstanding title. -Outstanding term. A term in gross at law, which, in equity, may be made attendant More...
  • OUTSUCKEN MULTURES
    In Scotch law. Out-town multures; multures, duties, or tolls paid by persons voluntarily grinding corn at any mill to which they are not thirled, or bound by tenure. 1 Forb. lust, pt 2, p. 140.
  • OUVERTURE DES SUCCESSIONS
    In French law. The right of succession which arises to one upon the death, whether natural or civil, of another.
  • OVE
    L. Fr. With. Modern French avcc.
  • OVELL
    L. Fr. Equal.
  • OVELTY
    In old English law. Equality.
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