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Obstructing process
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Obstructing processCriminal law. The act by which one or more persons at- tempt to prevent, or do prevent, the execution of lawful process.
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Criminal
Relating to, or having the character of crime
Law
A rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society. The learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system.
Execution
1) Contracts. The accomplishment of a thing; as the execution of a bond and warrant of attorney, which is the signing, sealing, and delivery of the same. 2) Criminal law. The putting a convict to death, agreeably to law, in pursuance of his sentence.
Lawful
That which is not forbidden by law. Id omne licitum est, quod non est legibus prohibitum, quamobrem, quod, lege permittente, fit, poenam non meretur. To be valid a contract must be lawful.
Process
1) Practice. So denominated because it proceeds or issues forth in order to bring the defendant into court, to answer the charge preferred against him, and signifies the writ or judicial means by which he is brought to answer. 2) Rights. The means or method of accomplishing a thing.
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Obstructing justice
An act which tends to impede or thwart the administration of justice. Examples include trying to bribe a witness or juror or providing law enforcement officers with information known to be false.
Obstruction of justice
Impeding a lawful Investigation by such acts as providing false documents, false testimony, destruction of evidence, and intimidating witnesses.
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Obreption
Civil law. Surprise.
Obscenity
Criminal law. Such indecency as is calculated to promote the violation of the law, and the general corruption of morals.
Obsolescence
One of the causes of depreciation: an impairment of desirability and usefulness caused by new inventions, current changes in design, improved processes of production, or external factors that make a property less desirable and valuable for a continued use.
Obsolete
This term is applied to those laws which have lost their efficacy, without being repealed.
Obstructing justice
An act which tends to impede or thwart the administration of justice. Examples include trying to bribe a witness or juror or providing law enforcement officers with information known to be false.
Obstructing process
Obstruction of justice
Impeding a lawful Investigation by such acts as providing false documents, false testimony, destruction of evidence, and intimidating witnesses.
Occupancy
The taking possession of those things corporeal which are without an owner, with an intention of appropriating them to one's own use. Pothier defines it to be the title by which one acquires property in a thing which belongs to nobody, by taking possession of it, with design of acquiring.
Occupant
Occupant or occupier. One who has the actual use or possession of a thing. He derives his title of occupancy either by taking possession of a thing without an owner, or by purchase, or gift of the thing from the owner, or it descends to him by due course of law.
Occupation
1) Use or tenure; as, the house is in the occupation of A B. A trade, business or mystery; as the occupation of a printer. Occupancy. 2) In another sense occupation signifies a putting out of a man's freehold in time of war.
Occupational safety and health act
(OSHA) A federal law designed to develop and promote occupational safety and health standards.
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Criminal
Relating to, or having the character of crime
Law
A rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society. The learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system.
Execution
1) Contracts. The accomplishment of a thing; as the execution of a bond and warrant of attorney, which is the signing, sealing, and delivery of the same. 2) Criminal law. The putting a convict to death, agreeably to law, in pursuance of his sentence.
Lawful
That which is not forbidden by law. Id omne licitum est, quod non est legibus prohibitum, quamobrem, quod, lege permittente, fit, poenam non meretur. To be valid a contract must be lawful.
Process
1) Practice. So denominated because it proceeds or issues forth in order to bring the defendant into court, to answer the charge preferred against him, and signifies the writ or judicial means by which he is brought to answer. 2) Rights. The means or method of accomplishing a thing.
SIMILAR TERMS--------------------------------------
Obstructing justice
An act which tends to impede or thwart the administration of justice. Examples include trying to bribe a witness or juror or providing law enforcement officers with information known to be false.
Obstruction of justice
Impeding a lawful Investigation by such acts as providing false documents, false testimony, destruction of evidence, and intimidating witnesses.
PREVIOUS AND NEXT TERMS--------------------------------------
Obreption
Civil law. Surprise.
Obscenity
Criminal law. Such indecency as is calculated to promote the violation of the law, and the general corruption of morals.
Obsolescence
One of the causes of depreciation: an impairment of desirability and usefulness caused by new inventions, current changes in design, improved processes of production, or external factors that make a property less desirable and valuable for a continued use.
Obsolete
This term is applied to those laws which have lost their efficacy, without being repealed.
Obstructing justice
An act which tends to impede or thwart the administration of justice. Examples include trying to bribe a witness or juror or providing law enforcement officers with information known to be false.
Obstructing process
Obstruction of justice
Impeding a lawful Investigation by such acts as providing false documents, false testimony, destruction of evidence, and intimidating witnesses.
Occupancy
The taking possession of those things corporeal which are without an owner, with an intention of appropriating them to one's own use. Pothier defines it to be the title by which one acquires property in a thing which belongs to nobody, by taking possession of it, with design of acquiring.
Occupant
Occupant or occupier. One who has the actual use or possession of a thing. He derives his title of occupancy either by taking possession of a thing without an owner, or by purchase, or gift of the thing from the owner, or it descends to him by due course of law.
Occupation
1) Use or tenure; as, the house is in the occupation of A B. A trade, business or mystery; as the occupation of a printer. Occupancy. 2) In another sense occupation signifies a putting out of a man's freehold in time of war.
Occupational safety and health act
(OSHA) A federal law designed to develop and promote occupational safety and health standards.
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