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Owler
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OwlerEnglish law. One guilty of the offence of owling.
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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.
Guilty
The state or condition of a person who has committed a crime, misdemeanor or offence. This word implies a malicious intent, and must be applied to something universally allowed to be a crime.
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.
Owling
English law. The offence of transporting wool or sheep out of the king-dom.
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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
The difference which is paid or secured by one coparcener to another, for the purpose of equalizing a partition.
Owler
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.
Oyer
Pleading. Oyer is a French word signifying to hear; in pleading it is a prayer or petition to the court, that the party may hear read to him the deed, &c., stated in the pleadings of the opposite party, aud which deed is by intendment of law in court, when it is pleaded with a profert.
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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.
Guilty
The state or condition of a person who has committed a crime, misdemeanor or offence. This word implies a malicious intent, and must be applied to something universally allowed to be a crime.
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.
Owling
English law. The offence of transporting wool or sheep out of the king-dom.
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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
The difference which is paid or secured by one coparcener to another, for the purpose of equalizing a partition.
Owler
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.
Oyer
Pleading. Oyer is a French word signifying to hear; in pleading it is a prayer or petition to the court, that the party may hear read to him the deed, &c., stated in the pleadings of the opposite party, aud which deed is by intendment of law in court, when it is pleaded with a profert.
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