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  • ONCE A MORTGAGE, ALWAYS A MORTGAGE
    This rule signifles that an instrument originally Intended as a mortgage, and not a deed, cannot be converted into anything else than a mortgage by any subsequent clause or agreement. Onoe a recompense, always a recompense. 19 Vin. Abr. 277.
  • ONCE IN JEOPARDY
    A phrase used to express the condition of a person charged with crime, who has once already, by legal proceedings, been put in danger of conviction and punishment for the same offense. See Com. v. Fitzpatrick, 121 Pa. 109, 15 Atl. 466, 1 L. R. A. 451, 6 Am. St. More...
  • ONCUNNE
    L. Fr. Accused. Du Cange.
  • ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND POUNDS CLAUSE
    A precautionary stipulation inserted in a deed making a good tenant to the prweipe in a common recovery. See 1 Prest. Conv. 110.
  • ONE-THIRD NEW FOR OLD
    See NEW FOR OLD.
  • ONERANDO PRO RATA PORTIONIS
    A writ that lay for a joint tenant or tenant In common who was distrained for more rent than his proportion of the land comes to. Reg. Orig. 182.
  • ONERARI NON
    In pleading. The name of a plea, in an action of debt, by which the defendant says that he ought not to be charged.
  • ONERATIO
    Lat A lading; a cargo.
  • ONERATUR NISI
    See O. Nr.
  • ONERIS FERENDI
    Lat In the civil law. The servitude of support; a servitude by which the wall of a house is required to sustain the wall or beams of the adjoining house.
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