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  • ORPHANOTROPHI
    In the civil law. Managers of houses for orphans.
  • ORPHANS' COURT
    In American law. Courts of probate jurisdiction, in Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania.
  • ORTELLI
    The claws of a dog's foot. Kitch.
  • ORTOLAGIUM
    A garden plot or hortillage.
  • ORWIGE, SINE WITA
    In old English law. Without war or feud, such security being provided by the laws, .for homicides under certain circumstances, against the fcehth, or deadly feud, on the part of the family of the slain. Anc. Inst. Eng.
  • OSTENDIT VOBIS
    Lat In old pleading. Shows to you. Formal words with which a demandant began his count. Fleta, lib. 5, c. 38, 5 2.
  • OSTENSIBLE AGENCY
    An implied or presumptive agency, which exists where one, either intentionally or from want of ordinary care, induces another to believe that a third person is his agent though he never in fact employed him. Bibb v. Bancroft (Cal.) 22 Pac. 484; First Nat. Bank v. Elevator Co., 11 N. More...
  • OSTENSIBLE PARTNER
    A partner whose name is made known and appears to the world as a partner, and who is'in reality such.- Story, Partn. { 80.
  • OSTENSIO
    A tax anciently paid by merchants, etc., for leave to show or expose their goods for sale in markets. Du Cange.
  • OSTENTUM
    Lat In the civil law. A monstrous or prodigious birth. Dig. 50, 16, 38.
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