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Of counsel
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Of counselA phrase commonly applied to counsel employed to assist in the preparation or management of the case, or its presentation on appeal, but who is not the principal attorney for the party.
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Counsel
1) Advice given to another as to what he ought to do or not to do. 2) An officer of court. One who undertakes to conduct suits and actions in court. The same as counsellor. 3) Practice, Criminal law. In the oath of the grand jurors, there is a provision requiring them to keep secret " the commonwealth's counsel, their fellows, and their own." In this sense this word is synonymous with knowledge.
Employed
One who is in the service of another. Such a person is entitled to rights and liable to.perform certain duties.
Case
1) Practice. A contested question before a court of justicea suit or action a cause. 2) An agreement in writing, between a plaintiff and defendant, that the facts in dispute between them are as there agreed upon and mentioned
Presentation
Ecclesiastical law. The act of a patron offering his clerk to the bishop of the diocese to be instituted in a church or benefice.
Appeal
1) English Criminal law. The accusation of a person, in a legal form, for a crime committed by him; or, it is the lawful declaration of another man's crime, before a competent judge, by one who sets his name to the declaration, and undertakes to prove it, upon the penalty which may ensue thereon. 2)Practice. The act by which a party submits to the decision of a superior court, a cause which has been tried in an inferior tribunal.
Principal
1) This word has several meanings. It is used in opposition to accessary, to show the degree of crime committed by two persons; thus, we say, the principal is more guilty than the accessary after the fact. 2) Contracts. One who, being competent to contract, and who is sui juris, employs another to do any act for his own benefit, or on his own account. 3) Criminal law. A principal is one who is the actor in the commission of a crime.
Attorney
A graduate of an accredited law school and member in good standing of the Bar Association. Only attorneys can give legal advice.
Party
Practice, contracts. When applied to practice, by party is understood either the plaintiff or defendant. In contracts, a party is one or more persons who engage to perform or receive the performance of some agreement.
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Of course
That which may be done, in the course of legal proceedings, without making any application to the court; that which is granted by the court without further inquiry, upon its being asked; as, a rule to plead is a matter of course.
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Occupavit
The name of a writ, which lies to recover the possession of lands, when they have been taken from the possession of the owner by occupation.
Occupier
Occupier or occupant. 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.
Ocean freight forwarder
A person who dispatches shipments from the United States via a common carrier, books or otherwise arranges space for those shipments on behalf of shippers and processes the documentation or performs related activities incident to those shipments.
Ochlocracy
A government where the authority is in the hands of the multi- tude; the abuse of a democracy.
Odhall right
The same as allodial.
Of counsel
Of course
That which may be done, in the course of legal proceedings, without making any application to the court; that which is granted by the court without further inquiry, upon its being asked; as, a rule to plead is a matter of course.
Offence
Crimes. The doing that which a penal law forbids to be done, or omitting to do what it commands; in this sense it is nearly synonymous with crime. In a more confined sense, it may be considered as having the same meaning with misdemeanor, but it differs from it in this, that it is not indictable, but punishable summarily by the forfeiture of a penalty.
Offense
A crime; any act which contravenes the criminal law of the state in which it occurs. Spelled "offence" in Commonwealth countries.
Offer
Contracts. A proposition to do a thing. An offer ought to contain a right, if accepted, of compelling the fulfilment of the contract, and this right when not expressed, is always implied.
Offer and acceptance
The essential elements without which no contract can be formed.
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Counsel
1) Advice given to another as to what he ought to do or not to do. 2) An officer of court. One who undertakes to conduct suits and actions in court. The same as counsellor. 3) Practice, Criminal law. In the oath of the grand jurors, there is a provision requiring them to keep secret " the commonwealth's counsel, their fellows, and their own." In this sense this word is synonymous with knowledge.
Employed
One who is in the service of another. Such a person is entitled to rights and liable to.perform certain duties.
Case
1) Practice. A contested question before a court of justicea suit or action a cause. 2) An agreement in writing, between a plaintiff and defendant, that the facts in dispute between them are as there agreed upon and mentioned
Presentation
Ecclesiastical law. The act of a patron offering his clerk to the bishop of the diocese to be instituted in a church or benefice.
Appeal
1) English Criminal law. The accusation of a person, in a legal form, for a crime committed by him; or, it is the lawful declaration of another man's crime, before a competent judge, by one who sets his name to the declaration, and undertakes to prove it, upon the penalty which may ensue thereon. 2)Practice. The act by which a party submits to the decision of a superior court, a cause which has been tried in an inferior tribunal.
Principal
1) This word has several meanings. It is used in opposition to accessary, to show the degree of crime committed by two persons; thus, we say, the principal is more guilty than the accessary after the fact. 2) Contracts. One who, being competent to contract, and who is sui juris, employs another to do any act for his own benefit, or on his own account. 3) Criminal law. A principal is one who is the actor in the commission of a crime.
Attorney
A graduate of an accredited law school and member in good standing of the Bar Association. Only attorneys can give legal advice.
Party
Practice, contracts. When applied to practice, by party is understood either the plaintiff or defendant. In contracts, a party is one or more persons who engage to perform or receive the performance of some agreement.
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Of course
That which may be done, in the course of legal proceedings, without making any application to the court; that which is granted by the court without further inquiry, upon its being asked; as, a rule to plead is a matter of course.
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Occupavit
The name of a writ, which lies to recover the possession of lands, when they have been taken from the possession of the owner by occupation.
Occupier
Occupier or occupant. 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.
Ocean freight forwarder
A person who dispatches shipments from the United States via a common carrier, books or otherwise arranges space for those shipments on behalf of shippers and processes the documentation or performs related activities incident to those shipments.
Ochlocracy
A government where the authority is in the hands of the multi- tude; the abuse of a democracy.
Odhall right
The same as allodial.
Of counsel
Of course
That which may be done, in the course of legal proceedings, without making any application to the court; that which is granted by the court without further inquiry, upon its being asked; as, a rule to plead is a matter of course.
Offence
Crimes. The doing that which a penal law forbids to be done, or omitting to do what it commands; in this sense it is nearly synonymous with crime. In a more confined sense, it may be considered as having the same meaning with misdemeanor, but it differs from it in this, that it is not indictable, but punishable summarily by the forfeiture of a penalty.
Offense
A crime; any act which contravenes the criminal law of the state in which it occurs. Spelled "offence" in Commonwealth countries.
Offer
Contracts. A proposition to do a thing. An offer ought to contain a right, if accepted, of compelling the fulfilment of the contract, and this right when not expressed, is always implied.
Offer and acceptance
The essential elements without which no contract can be formed.
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