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  • OBTORTO COLLO
    In Roman law. Taking by the neck or collar; as a plaintiff was allowed to drag a reluctant defendant to court. Adams, Rom. Ant 242.
  • OBTULIT SE
    (Offered himself.) In old practice. The emphatic words of entry on the record where one party offered himself in court against the other, and the latter did not appear. 1 Reeve, Eng. Law, 417.
  • OBVENTIO
    Lat In the civil law. Rent; profits; income; the return from an investment or thing owned; as the earnings of a vessel. In old English law. The revenue of a spiritual living, so called. Also, in the plural, "offerings".
  • OCASION
    In Spanish law. Accident. Las Partidas, pt. 3, tit 32, 1. 21; White, New Recop. b. 2, tit 9, c. 2.
  • OCCASIO
    In feudal law. A tribute which the lord Imposed on his vassals or tenants for his necessity. Hindrance; trouble; vexation by suit.
  • OCCASIONARI
    To be charged or loaded with payments or occasional penalties.
  • OCCASIONES
    In old English law. Assarts. Spelman. Oeonltatio thesauri invonti frauduloaa. 3 Inst. 133. The concealment of discovered treasure is fraudulent
  • OCCUPANCY
    Occupancy the mode of acquiring property- by which a thing which belongs to nobody becomes the property of the person who took possession of It, with the intention of acquiring a right of ownership in it. Civ. Code La. art. 3412; God-dard v. Winchell, 86 Iowa, 71, 52 N. W. More...
  • OCCUPANT
    In a general sense. Onewho takes possession of a thing, of which there is no owner; one who has the actual possession or control of a thing. In a special sense. One who takes possession of lands held pur autre vie, after the death of the tenant, and during the More...
  • OOCUPARE
    Lat Ia the civil law. Tor seise or take possession of; to enter upon a vacant possession; to take possession before another. Calvin.
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