n. At common law. One who has exempt and immediate jurisdiction In causes ecclesiastical. Also a bishop; and an archbishop is the ordinary of the whole province, to visit and receive appeals from inferior jurisdictions. Also a commissary or official of a bishop or other ecclesiastical judge having judicial power; an archdeacon; officer of the royal household. Wharton. In … [Read more...]
ORGANIZED COUNTY
A county which has its lawful officers, legal machinery, and means for carrying out the powers and performing the duties pertaining to it as a quasi municipal corporation. In re Section No. 6t 66 Minn. 32, 68 N. W. 323.ORGILD. In Saxon law. Without recompense; as where no satisfaction was to be made for the death of a man killed, so that he was judged lawfully slain. Spelman. … [Read more...]
ORDINATION
is the ceremony by which a bishop confers on a person the privileges and powers necessary for the execution of sacerdotal functions in the church. Phillim. Ecc. Law, 110. … [Read more...]
ORGANIZED CRIME
A long term and well planned criminal enterprise which has a systematic manner of illegally obtaining money, for example, the mafia. … [Read more...]
ORDINATIONE CONTRA SERVIENTES
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...]