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OFFICIALITY
* The court or Jurisdiction of which an official is head.

* The court or Jurisdiction of which an official is head. Less...
OFFICIARIIS NON FACIENDIS VEL AMOVENDIS
A writ addressed to the magistrates of a corporation, requiring them not to make such a man an officer, or to put one out of the office he has, until inquiry is made of his manners, etc. Reg. Orig. 126.

A writ addressed to the magistrates of a corporation, requiring them not to make such a man an officer, or to put one out of the office he has, until inquiry is made of his manners, etc. Reg. Orig. 126. Less...
OFFICINA JUSTITIAE
The workshop or office of Justice. The chancery was formerly so called. See 3 Bl. Comm. 273; Yates v. People, 6 Johns. (N. Y.) 363.

The workshop or office of Justice. The chancery was formerly so called. See 3 Bl. Comm. 273; Yates v. People, 6 Johns. (N. Y.) 363. Less...
OFFICIO, EX, OATH
An oath whereby a person may be obliged to make any presentment of any crime or offense, or to confess or accuse himself of any criminal matter or thing whereby he may be liable to any censure, penalty, on punishment 3 Bl. Comm. 447.

An oath whereby a person may be obliged to make any presentment of any crime or offense, or to confess or accuse himself of any criminal matter or thing whereby he may be liable to any censure, penalty, on punishment 3 Bl. Comm. 447. Less...
OFFICIOUS WILL
A testament by which a testator leaves his property to his family. Sandars, Just. Inst. 207. See INOFFICIOUS TESTAMENT. Offioit oonatns si cffeotns sequatur. The attempt becomes of consequence, if the effect follows. Jenk. Cent. 55. Officium nemini debet esse damnosnm. Office ought not to be an occasion of loss More...

A testament by which a testator leaves his property to his family. Sandars, Just. Inst. 207. See INOFFICIOUS TESTAMENT. Offioit oonatns si cffeotns sequatur. The attempt becomes of consequence, if the effect follows. Jenk. Cent. 55. Officium nemini debet esse damnosnm. Office ought not to be an occasion of loss to any one. A maxim in Scotch law. Bell. Less...
OFFSET
A deduction; a counterclaim; a contrary claim or demand by which a given claim may be lessened or canceled. See Leonard r. Charter Oak L. Ins. Co., 65 Conn. 529, 33 Ati. 511; Cable Flax Mills v. Early, 72 App. Div. 213, 76 N. Y. Supp. 191. The more usual More...

A deduction; a counterclaim; a contrary claim or demand by which a given claim may be lessened or canceled. See Leonard r. Charter Oak L. Ins. Co., 65 Conn. 529, 33 Ati. 511; Cable Flax Mills v. Early, 72 App. Div. 213, 76 N. Y. Supp. 191. The more usual form of the word is "set-off" Less...
OFFSPRING
This term is synonymous with "issue." See Barber v. Railroad Co., 166 U. S. 83, 17 Sup. Ct. 488, 41 L. Ed. 925; Allen v. Markle, 36 Pa. 117; Powell v. Brandon, 2 Cushm. (Miss.) 343.

This term is synonymous with "issue." See Barber v. Railroad Co., 166 U. S. 83, 17 Sup. Ct. 488, 41 L. Ed. 925; Allen v. Markle, 36 Pa. 117; Powell v. Brandon, 2 Cushm. (Miss.) 343. Less...
OIR
In.Spanish law. To hear; to take cognizance. White, New Recop. b. 3, tit X, c 7

In.Spanish law. To hear; to take cognizance. White, New Recop. b. 3, tit X, c 7 Less...
OXER
In Scotch law. Usury; the taking of interest for money, contrary to law. Bell.

In Scotch law. Usury; the taking of interest for money, contrary to law. Bell. Less...
OLD NATURA. BREVIUM
The title of a treatise written in the reign of Edward III. containing the writs which were then most in use, annexing to each a short comment concerning their nature and the application of them, with their various properties and effects. 3 Reeve, Eng. Law, 152. It is so called More...

The title of a treatise written in the reign of Edward III. containing the writs which were then most in use, annexing to each a short comment concerning their nature and the application of them, with their various properties and effects. 3 Reeve, Eng. Law, 152. It is so called by way of distinction from the New Natura Brevium of Fitzherbert, and is generally cited as "O. N. B.," or as "Vet Na. B." using the abbreviated form of the Latin title. Less...

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