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  • OBREPTION
    Obtaining anything by fraud or surprise. Acquisition of escheats, etc., from the sovereign, by making false representations. Bell.
  • OBROGARE
    Lat In the civil law. To pass a law contrary to a former law, or to some clause of it; to change a former law in some part of it Calvin.
  • OBROGATION
    In the civil law. The alteration of a law by the passage of one inconsistent with it Calvin.
  • OBSCENE
    Lewd; impure; indecent; calculated to shock the moral sense of man by a disregard of chastity or modesty. Tim-mons v. U. S., 85 Fed. 205, 30.C. C A. 74; U. S. T. Harmon (D. C.) 45 Fed. 414; Dunlop v. U. S., 165 U. S. 486 17 Sup. Ct 875, More...
  • OBSCENITY
    The character or quality of being obscene; conduct tending to corrupt the public morals by its indecency or lewd-ness. State v. Pfenninger, 76 Mo. App. 313; U. S. v. Loftis (D. CJ 12 Fed. 67L
  • OBSERVE
    In the civil law. To perform that which has been prescribed by some law or usage. Dig. 1, 3, 32. See Marshall County v. Knoll, 102 Iowa, 673, 69 N. W. 1146.
  • OBSES
    Lat In the law of war. A hostage. Obsides, hostages.
  • OBSIGNARE
    Lat In the civil law. To seal up; as money that had been tendered and refused.
  • OBSIGNATORY
    Ratifying and confirming.
  • OBSOLESCENT
    Becoming obsolete; going out of use; not entirely disused, but gradually becoming so.
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