日期：2008-03-20 OCCUPANT or OCCUPIER . One who has the actual use or possession of a thing. 2. He derives his title of occupancy either by taking possession of a thing without an owner, or by purchase, or gift of the thing from the owner, or it descends to him by d... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-20 OCCUPANCY . The taking possession of those things corporeal which are without an owner, with an intention of appropriating them to one's own use. Pothier defines it to be the title by which one acquires property in a thing which belongs to nobody, b... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-20 OBREPTION , civil law. Surprise. Dig. 3,5,8,1. Vide Surprise. OBSCENITY , crim. law. Such indecency as is calculated to promote the violation of the law, and the general corruption of morals. 2. The exhibition of an obscene picture is an indictable... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-20 OBLIGATION OF CONTRACTS . By this expression, which is used in the consti- tution of the United States, is meant a legal and not merely a moral duty. 4 Wheat. 107. The obligation of contracts consists in the necessity under which a man finds himself... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-20 OBEDIENCE . The performance of a command. 2. Officers who obey the command of their superiors, having jurisdiction of the subject-matter, are not responsible for their acts. A sheriff may therefore justify a trespass under an execution, when the cou... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-20 OATH . A declaration made according to law, before a competent tribunal or officer, to tell the truth; or it is the act of one who, when lawfully required to tell the truth, takes God to witness that what he says is true. It is a religious act by wh... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-20 NUNC PRO TUNC, practice. This phrase, which signifies now for then, is used to express that a thing is done at one time which ought to have been performed at an- other. Leave of court must be obtained to do things nunc pro tunc, and this is granted... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-20 NULIUS FILIUS. The son of no one; a bastard. 2. A bastard is considered nullius filius as far as regards his right inherit. But the rule of nullius filius does not apply in other respects. 3. The mother of a bastard, during its age of nurture, is en... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-20 NULIA BONA. The retum made to a writ of fieri facias, by the sheriff, when he has not found any goods of the defendant on which he could levy. 3 Bouv. Inst. n. 3393. NULLITY. Properly, that which does not exist; that which is not properly in the nat... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-20 NUL, law French. A barbarous word which means to convey a negative; as, Nul tiel record, Nul tiel award. NUL AGARD. No award. A plea to an action on an arbitration bond, when the defendant avers that there was no legal award made. 3 Burr. 1730; 2 St... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-20 NUISANCE, crim. law, torts. This word means literally annoyance; in law, it signifies, according to Blackstone, anything that worketh hurt, inconvenience, or damage. 3 Comm. 216. 2. Nuisances are either public or com- mon, or private nuisances. 3.-1... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-20 NOVUS HOMO. A new man; -this term, is applied to a man who has been pardoned of a crime, by which he is restored to society, and is rebabilitated. NOXAL ACTTON, civil law. A personal, arbitrary, and indirect action in favor of one who has been injur... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-20 NOVEL ASSIGNMENT. Vide New Assignment. NOVEL DISSEISIN. The name of an old remedy which was given for a new or recent disseisin. 2. When tenant in fee simple, fee tail, or for term of life, was put out, and digseised of his lands or tenements, rents... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-20 NOVA CUSTOMA. The name of an imposition or duty in England. Vide An- tiqua; Customs. NOVA STATUTA. New statutes. The name given to the statutes commencing with the reign of Edward III. Vide Vetera Statuta. NOVAE NARRATIONES. The title of an ancient... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-20 NOTING. The name of the minute made by a notary on a bill of exohange, after it has been presented for acceptance or payment, consisting of the initials of his name, the date of the day, month ana year when such presentment was made, and the reason,... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-20 NOTICE TO QUIT. A request from a landlord to his tenant, to quit the premises lessed, and to give possession of the same to him, the landlord, at a time therein men- tioned. 2. It will be proper to consider, 1. The form of the notice. 2. By whom it... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-20 NOTICE, TO PRODUCE PAPERS , practice, evidence. When it is intended to give seoondary evidence of a written instrument or paper, which is in: the possession of the opposite party, it ii, in general, requisite to give him notice to produce the same o... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-20 NOTICE, AVERMENT OF , in pleading. This is frequently necessary, particularly in special actions of assumpsit. 2. When the matter alleged in the pleading is to be considered as lying more properly in the knowledge of the plaintiff, than of the defen... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-20 NOTE OF HAND, contracts. Another name, less technical, for a promissory note. (q. v.) 2 Bl. Com. 467. Vide Bank note; Promissory note, Reissuable note. NOTES, practice. Short statements of what transpires on the trial of a cause; they are generally... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-20 NOT POSSESSED. A plea sometimes used in actions of trover, when the defendant was not possessed of the goods at the commencement of the action. 3 Mann. Gr. 101, 103. NOTARY or NOTARY PUBLIC. An officer appointed by the executive, or other appointing... 阅读全文>>