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When a banker accepts or pays a bill of exchange drawn on him by a correspondent, who has not furnished him with funds, he is said to open a credit with the drawer. Pardess. n. 29. … [Read more...] about OPEN A CREDIT

One day's work performed by a tenant for his lord. … [Read more...] about OPERATIO

The misdemeanor committed by a public officer who under color of his office wrongfully inllicts upon any person any bodily harm imprisonment or other injury. … [Read more...] about OPPRESSION

An adoption in which there is some degree of contact between the birthparents and the adoptive parents and sometimes with the child as well. As opposed to most adoptions in which birth and adoption records are sealed by court order, open adoptions allow the parties to decide how much contact the adoptive family and the birthparents will have. … [Read more...] about OPEN ADOPTION

In general, the exertion of power; the process of operating or mode of action; an effect brought about in accordance with a definite plan. See Little Rock v. Parish, 36 Ark. 166; Fleming OU Co, v. South Penn Oil Co., 37 W. Va. 653, 17 & E. 203. In surgical practice, the term is of Indefinite import, but may be approximately defined as an act or succession of acts performed … [Read more...] about OPERATION