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OSTENSIO

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A tax anciently paid by merchants, etc., for leave to show or expose their goods for sale in markets. Du Cange. … [Read more...]

ORPHANAGE PART

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That portion of an intestate's effects which his children were entitled to by the custom of London. This custom appears to have been a remnant of what was once a general law all over England, namely, that a father should not by his will bequeath the entirety of his personal estate away from his family, but should leave them a third part at least, called the "children's part," … [Read more...]

OSTENTUM

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Latin: In the civil law. A monstrous or prodigious birth. Dig. 50, 16, 38. … [Read more...]

ORDINATIONE CONTRA SERVIENTES

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A writ that lay against a servant for leaving his master contrary to the ordinance of St. 23 & 24 Edw. III. Reg. Orig. 189. … [Read more...]

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