ORPHANS1' COURT. The name of a court in some of the states, having jurisdic- tion of the estates and persons of orphans.
ORPHANOTROPHI, civil law. Persons who have the charge of administering the affairs of houses destined2 for the use of orphans. Clef des Lois Rom. mot Ad- ministrateurs.
OSTENSIBLE3 PARTNER. One whose name appears in a firm, as a partner, and who is really such.
OTHER WRONGS, pleading, evidence. In actions of trespass4, the declaration concludes by charging generally, that the defendant5 did other wrongs to the plaintiff to his great damage. When the injury is a continuation or consequence of the trespass declared on, the plaintiff may give evidence of such injury under this averment of other wrongs, Rep., Temp. Holt 699; 2 Salk. 642; 6 Mod. 127; Bull. N. P. 89; 2 Stark6. N. P. C. 818.
OUNCE. The name of a weight. An ounce avoirdupois weight is the sixteenth part of a pound; an ounce troy weight is the twelfth part of a pound. Vide Weights.
OUSTER, torts. An ouster is the actual turning out, or keeping excluded, the party entitlod to possession of any real property corporeal7.
2. An ouster can properly be only from real property corporeal, and cannot be committed of anything movable; 1 Car. & P. 123; S. C. 11 Eng. Com. Law R. 339; 2 Bouv. 1 Inst. n. 2348; 1 Chit. Pr. 148, note r; nor is a mere8 temporary trespass considered as an Guster. Any continuing act of exclusion9 from the enjoyment10, constitutes an ouster, even by one tenant11 in common of his co-tenant. Co. Litt. 199 b, 200 a. Vide 3 Bl; Com. 167; Arch. Civ. Pl. 6, 14; 1 Chit. Pr. 374, where the remedies for an ouster are pointed12 out. Vide Judgment13 of Respondent Ouster.
OUSTER LE MAIN. In law-French, this signifies, to take out of the hand. In the old English law it signified a livery of lands out of the hands of the lord, after the tenant came of age. If the lord refused to deliver such lands, the tenant was entitled to a writ14 to recover the same from the lord; this recovery out of the hands of the lord was called ouster le main.
OUTFIT15. An allowance made by the government of the United States to a minis-ter plenipotentiary, or charge des affaires, on going from the United States to any foreign country.
2. The outfit can in no case exceedlone year's full salary of such minister or charge des affaires. No outfit is allowed to a consul16. Act of Cong. May 1, 1810. s. 1. Vide Minister.