A garden plot or hortillage. … [Read more...] about ORTOLAGIUM
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ORWIGE, SINE WITA
In old English law. Without war or feud, such security being provided by the laws, .for homicides under certain circumstances, against the fcehth, or deadly feud, on the part of the family of the slain. Anc. Inst. Eng. … [Read more...] about ORWIGE, SINE WITA
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Operating System. … [Read more...] about OS
ORDONNANCE
Fr. In French law, an ordinance; an order of a court; a compilation or systematized body of law relating to a particular subject matter, as, commercial law or maritime law. Particularly, a compilation of the law relating to prizes and captures at sea. See Coolidge v. Inglee, 13 Mass. 43. … [Read more...] about ORDONNANCE
ORIGINAL WORK OF AUTHORSHIP
This is a copyright term referring to a unique, new creative work that is expressed in a tangible expression (such as writing or on a canvas or stored on compact disc.) As long as the person creating the work had no other significant influence and created the work by way of his or her own independent expression, it would be considered original and able to be registered for … [Read more...] about ORIGINAL WORK OF AUTHORSHIP