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  • OURLOP
    The lierwite or fine paid to the lord by the inferior, tenant when his daughter was debauched. Cowell.
  • OUST
    To put out; to eject; to remove or deprive; to deprive of the possession or enjoyment of an estate or franchise.
  • OUSTER
    In practice. A putting out; dispossession; amotion of possession. A species of injuries to things real, by which the wrong-doer gains actual occupation of the land, and compels the rightful owner to seek his legal remedy in order to gain possession. 2 Crabb, Real Prop. p. 1063, ft 2454a. See More...
  • OUSTER LE MAIN
    L. Fr. Literally, out of the hand. 1. A delivery of lands out of the king's hands by judgment given in favor of the petitioner in a monstrous de droit. 2. A delivery of the ward's lands out of the hands of the guardian, on the former arriving at the More...
  • OUSTER LE MER
    L. Fr. Beyond the sea; a cause of excuse if a person, being summoned, did not appear in court Cowell.
  • OUT-BOUNDARIES
    A term used in early Mexican land laws to designate certain boundaries within which grants of a smaller tract, which designated such out-boundaries, might be located by the grantee. U. S. ?. Maxwell Land Grant Co., 121 U. S. 325, 7 Sup. Ct 1015, 30 L. Ed. 949.
  • OUT OF COURT
    He who has no legal statue in court is said to be "out of court," i. e., he is not before the court. Thus, when the plaintiff in an action, by some act of omission or commission, shows that he is unable to maintain his action, he is frequently said More...
  • OUT OF TERM
    At a time when no term of the court is belug held; in the Vacation or interval which elapses between terms of the "court See McNeill v. Hodges, 99 N. C. 248, 6 S. E. 127.
  • OUT OF THE STATE
    In reference to rights, liabilities, or jurisdictions arising out of tbe common law, this phrase is equivalent to "beyond sea," which see. In other connections, it means physically beyond the territorial limits of the particular state in question, or constructively so,' as in the case of a foreign corporation. See More...
  • OUT OF TIME
    A mercantile phrase applied to a ship or vessel that has been so long at sea as to justify the belief of her total loss. In another sense, a vessel is said to be out of time when, computed from her known day of sailing, the time that has elapsed More...
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