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ORDINANCE OF 1787. An act of congress which regulates the territories of the United States. It is printed in 3 Story, L. U. S. 2073. Some parts of thi...

ORDER, French law. The act by which the rank of preferences of claims among creditors who have liens over the price which arises out of the sale of an...

ORATOR, practice. A good man, skillful in speaking well, and who employs a perfect eloquence to defend causes either public or private. Dupin, Profess...

OPINION, judgment. A collection of reasons delivered by a judge for giving the judgment he is about to pronounce the judgment itself is sometimes call...

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 ...

TO OPEN, OPENING. To open a case is to make a statement of the pleadings in a case, which is called the opening.2. The opening should be concise, very...

OMNIUM, mercant. law. A term used to express the aggregate value of the dif- ferent stocks in which a loan is usually funded. 2 Esp. Rep. 361; 7 T. R....

OLD AGE. This 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 com...

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....

OFFICE BOOK, evidence. A book kept in a public office, not appertaining to a court, authorized by the law of any state.2. An exemplification, (q. v.) ...