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Old age
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Old ageThis needs no definition. Sometimes old age is the cause of loss of memory and of the powers of the mind, when the party may be found non compos mentis.
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Definition
An enumeration of the particular acts included by or under a name: as, the definition of a crime.
Cause
1) Civil law. It signifies the delivery of the thing, or the accomplishment of the act which is the object of a convention. 2) It is the consideration or motive for making a contract. 3) Pleading. The reason; the motive. 4) Practice. A contested question before a court of justice; it is a Suit or action.
Loss
contracts. The deprivation of something which one had, which was either advantageous, agreeable or commodious.
Memory
Understanding; a capacity to make contracts, a will, or to commit a crime, so far as intention is necessary.
When
1) At which time, in wills, standing by itself unqualified and unexplained, this is a word of condition denoting the time at which the gift is to continence. 2) The context of a will may show that the word when is to be applied to the possession only, not to the vesting of a legacy; but to justify this construction, there must be circumstances, or other expressions in the will, showing such to have been the testator's intent.
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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Old head
In Virginia penitentiary slang, someone who has been incarcerated for many years.
Old lady
In the US penitentiary slang, passive partner in a prison homosexual relationship.
Old natura brevium
The title of an old English book. It contains the writs most in use in the reign of Edward III, together with a short comment on the application and properties of each of them.
Old tenures
The title of a small tract, which, as its title denotes, contains an account of the various tenures by which land was holden in the reign of Edward III. This tract was published in 1719, with notes and additions, with the eleventh edition of the First Institutes, and reprinted in 8vo. in 1764, by Serjeant Hawkins, in a Selection of Coke's Law Tracts.
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Official
civil and canon laws. In the ancient civil law, the person who was the minister of, or attendant upon a magistrate, was called the official.
Official reports
The publication of cumulated court decisions of state or federal courts in advance sheets and bound volumes as provided by statutory authority.
Officina justitiae
English law. The chancery is so called, because all writs issue from it, under the great seal returnable into the courts of common law.
Officio
EX. By virtue of one's office.
Ohio
The name of one of the new states of the United States of America. It was admitted into the Union by virtue of the act of congress, entitled "An act to enable the people of the eastern division of the territory north-west of the river Ohio, to form a constitution and state government, and for the admission of such state into the Union, on an equal footing with the original states, and for other purposes," approved, May 30, 1802,
Old age
Old natura brevium
The title of an old English book. It contains the writs most in use in the reign of Edward III, together with a short comment on the application and properties of each of them.
Old tenures
The title of a small tract, which, as its title denotes, contains an account of the various tenures by which land was holden in the reign of Edward III. This tract was published in 1719, with notes and additions, with the eleventh edition of the First Institutes, and reprinted in 8vo. in 1764, by Serjeant Hawkins, in a Selection of Coke's Law Tracts.
Oleron laws
The name of a maritime code
Oligarchy
This name is given to designate the power which a few citizens of a state have usurped, which ought by the constitution to reside in the people. Among the Romans the government degenerated several times into an oligarchy; for example, under the decemvirs, when they became the only magistrates in the commonwealth.
Olograph
When applied to wills or testaments, this term signifies that they are wholly written by the testator himself.
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Definition
An enumeration of the particular acts included by or under a name: as, the definition of a crime.
Cause
1) Civil law. It signifies the delivery of the thing, or the accomplishment of the act which is the object of a convention. 2) It is the consideration or motive for making a contract. 3) Pleading. The reason; the motive. 4) Practice. A contested question before a court of justice; it is a Suit or action.
Loss
contracts. The deprivation of something which one had, which was either advantageous, agreeable or commodious.
Memory
Understanding; a capacity to make contracts, a will, or to commit a crime, so far as intention is necessary.
When
1) At which time, in wills, standing by itself unqualified and unexplained, this is a word of condition denoting the time at which the gift is to continence. 2) The context of a will may show that the word when is to be applied to the possession only, not to the vesting of a legacy; but to justify this construction, there must be circumstances, or other expressions in the will, showing such to have been the testator's intent.
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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Old head
In Virginia penitentiary slang, someone who has been incarcerated for many years.
Old lady
In the US penitentiary slang, passive partner in a prison homosexual relationship.
Old natura brevium
The title of an old English book. It contains the writs most in use in the reign of Edward III, together with a short comment on the application and properties of each of them.
Old tenures
The title of a small tract, which, as its title denotes, contains an account of the various tenures by which land was holden in the reign of Edward III. This tract was published in 1719, with notes and additions, with the eleventh edition of the First Institutes, and reprinted in 8vo. in 1764, by Serjeant Hawkins, in a Selection of Coke's Law Tracts.
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Official
civil and canon laws. In the ancient civil law, the person who was the minister of, or attendant upon a magistrate, was called the official.
Official reports
The publication of cumulated court decisions of state or federal courts in advance sheets and bound volumes as provided by statutory authority.
Officina justitiae
English law. The chancery is so called, because all writs issue from it, under the great seal returnable into the courts of common law.
Officio
EX. By virtue of one's office.
Ohio
The name of one of the new states of the United States of America. It was admitted into the Union by virtue of the act of congress, entitled "An act to enable the people of the eastern division of the territory north-west of the river Ohio, to form a constitution and state government, and for the admission of such state into the Union, on an equal footing with the original states, and for other purposes," approved, May 30, 1802,
Old age
Old natura brevium
The title of an old English book. It contains the writs most in use in the reign of Edward III, together with a short comment on the application and properties of each of them.
Old tenures
The title of a small tract, which, as its title denotes, contains an account of the various tenures by which land was holden in the reign of Edward III. This tract was published in 1719, with notes and additions, with the eleventh edition of the First Institutes, and reprinted in 8vo. in 1764, by Serjeant Hawkins, in a Selection of Coke's Law Tracts.
Oleron laws
The name of a maritime code
Oligarchy
This name is given to designate the power which a few citizens of a state have usurped, which ought by the constitution to reside in the people. Among the Romans the government degenerated several times into an oligarchy; for example, under the decemvirs, when they became the only magistrates in the commonwealth.
Olograph
When applied to wills or testaments, this term signifies that they are wholly written by the testator himself.
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