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Owelty
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OweltyThe difference which is paid or secured by one coparcener to another, for the purpose of equalizing a partition.
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Difference
A dispute, contest, disagreement, quarrel.
Partition
Conveyancing. A deed of partition is, one by which lands held in joint tenancy, coparcenary, or in common, are divided into distinct portions, and allotted to the several parties, who take them in severalty.
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Overplus
What is left beyond a certain amount; the residue, the remainder of a thing. The same as Surplus.
Overrule
A judge's decision not to allow an objection. Also, a decision by a higher court finding that a lower court decision was in error.
Overseers of the poor
Persons appointed or elected to take care of the poor with moneys furnished to them by the public authority.
Oversman
Scotch law. A person commonly named in a submission, to whom power is given to determine in case the arbiters cannot agree in the sentence; sometimes the nomination of the oversman is left to the arbiters. In either case the oversman has no power to decide, unless the arbiters differ in opinion.
Overt
Open. An overt act in treason is proof of the intention of the traitor, because it opens his designs; without an overt act treason cannot be committed.
Owelty
Owler
English law. One guilty of the offence of owling.
Owling
English law. The offence of transporting wool or sheep out of the king-dom.
Owner
Property. The owner is he who has dominion of a thing real or person-al, corporeal or incorporeal, which he has a right to enjoy and to do with as he pleases, even to spoil or destroy it, as far as the law permits, unless he be prevented by some agreement or covenant which restrains his right.
Ownership
Title to property. The right by which a thing belongs to some one in particular, to the exclusion of all other persons.
Oxgang of land
Old English law. An uncertain quantity of land, but, according to some opinions, it contains fifteen acres.
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Difference
A dispute, contest, disagreement, quarrel.
Partition
Conveyancing. A deed of partition is, one by which lands held in joint tenancy, coparcenary, or in common, are divided into distinct portions, and allotted to the several parties, who take them in severalty.
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PREVIOUS AND NEXT TERMS--------------------------------------
Overplus
What is left beyond a certain amount; the residue, the remainder of a thing. The same as Surplus.
Overrule
A judge's decision not to allow an objection. Also, a decision by a higher court finding that a lower court decision was in error.
Overseers of the poor
Persons appointed or elected to take care of the poor with moneys furnished to them by the public authority.
Oversman
Scotch law. A person commonly named in a submission, to whom power is given to determine in case the arbiters cannot agree in the sentence; sometimes the nomination of the oversman is left to the arbiters. In either case the oversman has no power to decide, unless the arbiters differ in opinion.
Overt
Open. An overt act in treason is proof of the intention of the traitor, because it opens his designs; without an overt act treason cannot be committed.
Owelty
Owler
English law. One guilty of the offence of owling.
Owling
English law. The offence of transporting wool or sheep out of the king-dom.
Owner
Property. The owner is he who has dominion of a thing real or person-al, corporeal or incorporeal, which he has a right to enjoy and to do with as he pleases, even to spoil or destroy it, as far as the law permits, unless he be prevented by some agreement or covenant which restrains his right.
Ownership
Title to property. The right by which a thing belongs to some one in particular, to the exclusion of all other persons.
Oxgang of land
Old English law. An uncertain quantity of land, but, according to some opinions, it contains fifteen acres.
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