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Oppressor
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OppressorOne who having public authority uses it unlawfully to tyrannize over another; as, if he keep him in prison until he shall do something which he is not lawfully bound to do.
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Public
By the term the public, is meant the whole body politic, or all the citizens of the state; sometimes it signifies the inhabitants of a particular place; as, the New York public.
Authority
Government. The right and power which an officer has in the exercise of a public function to compel obedience to his lawful commands.
Unlawfully
Pleadings. This word is frequently used in indictments in the description of the offence; it is necessary when the crime did not exist at common law, and when a statute, in describing an offence which it creates, uses the word ; but it is unnecessary whenever the crime existed at common law, and is manifestly illegal.
Prison
A legal prison is the building designated by law, or used by the sheriff, for the confinement, or detention of those whose persons are judicially ordered to be kept in custody. But in cases of necessity, the sheriff may make his own house, or any other place, a prison.
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Opprobrium
Civil law. Ignominy; shame; infamy.
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Opening statement
A lawyer's opening remarks in the beginning of a trial. they are addressed to the judge.
Operation of law
This term is applied to those rights which are cast upon a party by the law, without any act of his own; as, the right to an estate of one who dies intestate, is cast upon the heir at law, by operation of law; when a lessee for life enfeoffs him in reversion, or when the lessee and lessor join in a feoffment, or when a lessee for life or years accepts a new lease or demise from the lessor, there is a surrender of the first lease by operation of law.
Operative
A workman; one employed to perform labor for another.
Opinion
1) Practice. A declaration by a counsel to his client of what the law is, according to his judgment, on a statement of facts submitted to him. The paper upon which an opinion is written is, by a figure of speech, also called an opinion. 2) Evidence. An inference made, or conclusion drawn, by a witness from facts known to him. 3) Judgment. A collection of reasons delivered by a judge for giving the judgment he is about to pronounce the judgment itself is sometimes called an opinion.
Opposition
practice. The act of a creditor who, declares his dissent to a debtor's being discharged under the insolvent laws.
Oppressor
Opprobrium
Civil law. Ignominy; shame; infamy.
Option
Choice; Election; where the subject is considered.
Or
This syllable in the termination of words has an active signification, and usually denotes the doer of an act; as, the grantor, he who makes a grant; the vendor, he who makes a sale; the feoffor, he who makes a feoffment.
Oraculum
Civil law. The name of a kind of decisions given by the Roman emperors.
Oral
Something spoken in contradistinction to something written; as oral evidence, which is evidence delivered verbally by a witness,
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Public
By the term the public, is meant the whole body politic, or all the citizens of the state; sometimes it signifies the inhabitants of a particular place; as, the New York public.
Authority
Government. The right and power which an officer has in the exercise of a public function to compel obedience to his lawful commands.
Unlawfully
Pleadings. This word is frequently used in indictments in the description of the offence; it is necessary when the crime did not exist at common law, and when a statute, in describing an offence which it creates, uses the word ; but it is unnecessary whenever the crime existed at common law, and is manifestly illegal.
Prison
A legal prison is the building designated by law, or used by the sheriff, for the confinement, or detention of those whose persons are judicially ordered to be kept in custody. But in cases of necessity, the sheriff may make his own house, or any other place, a prison.
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Opprobrium
Civil law. Ignominy; shame; infamy.
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Opening statement
A lawyer's opening remarks in the beginning of a trial. they are addressed to the judge.
Operation of law
This term is applied to those rights which are cast upon a party by the law, without any act of his own; as, the right to an estate of one who dies intestate, is cast upon the heir at law, by operation of law; when a lessee for life enfeoffs him in reversion, or when the lessee and lessor join in a feoffment, or when a lessee for life or years accepts a new lease or demise from the lessor, there is a surrender of the first lease by operation of law.
Operative
A workman; one employed to perform labor for another.
Opinion
1) Practice. A declaration by a counsel to his client of what the law is, according to his judgment, on a statement of facts submitted to him. The paper upon which an opinion is written is, by a figure of speech, also called an opinion. 2) Evidence. An inference made, or conclusion drawn, by a witness from facts known to him. 3) Judgment. A collection of reasons delivered by a judge for giving the judgment he is about to pronounce the judgment itself is sometimes called an opinion.
Opposition
practice. The act of a creditor who, declares his dissent to a debtor's being discharged under the insolvent laws.
Oppressor
Opprobrium
Civil law. Ignominy; shame; infamy.
Option
Choice; Election; where the subject is considered.
Or
This syllable in the termination of words has an active signification, and usually denotes the doer of an act; as, the grantor, he who makes a grant; the vendor, he who makes a sale; the feoffor, he who makes a feoffment.
Oraculum
Civil law. The name of a kind of decisions given by the Roman emperors.
Oral
Something spoken in contradistinction to something written; as oral evidence, which is evidence delivered verbally by a witness,
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