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  • OBTAIN
    To acquire; to get hold of by effort; to get and retain possession of; as, in the offense of "obtaining" money or property by false pretenses. See Com. v. Schmunk, 207 Pa. 544, 56 Atl. 1088,. 90 Am. St. Rep. 801; People v. General Sessions, 13 Hun (N. Y.) 400; More...
  • OBTEMPERARE
    Lat To obey. Hence the Scotch "obtemper," to obey or comply with a judgment of a court.
  • OBTEST
    To protest.
  • OBTORTO COLLO
    In Roman law. Taking by the neck or collar; as a plaintiff was allowed to drag a reluctant defendant to court. Adams, Rom. Ant 242.
  • OBTULIT SE
    (Offered himself.) In old practice. The emphatic words of entry on the record where one party offered himself in court against the other, and the latter did not appear. 1 Reeve, Eng. Law, 417.
  • OBVENTIO
    Lat In the civil law. Rent; profits; income; the return from an investment or thing owned; as the earnings of a vessel. In old English law. The revenue of a spiritual living, so called. Also, in the plural, "offerings".
  • OCASION
    In Spanish law. Accident. Las Partidas, pt. 3, tit 32, 1. 21; White, New Recop. b. 2, tit 9, c. 2.
  • OCCASIO
    In feudal law. A tribute which the lord Imposed on his vassals or tenants for his necessity. Hindrance; trouble; vexation by suit.
  • OCCASIONARI
    To be charged or loaded with payments or occasional penalties.
  • OCCASIONES
    In old English law. Assarts. Spelman. Oeonltatio thesauri invonti frauduloaa. 3 Inst. 133. The concealment of discovered treasure is fraudulent
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