Dutch. Immovable and fast estate, that is, land or real estate. The phrase is used in Dutch wills, deeds, and antenuptial contracts of the early colonial period in New York. See Spraker v. Van Alstyne, 18 Wend. (N. Y.) 208. … [Read more...]
ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND POUNDS CLAUSE
A precautionary stipulation inserted in a deed making a good tenant to the prweipe in a common recovery. See 1 Prest. Conv. 110. … [Read more...]
ONUS
Latin: A burden or load; a weight The lading, burden, or cargo of a vessel. A charge; an incumbrance. Cum onere, (q. v.) with the incumbrance. Onus episeopale. Ancient customary payments from the clergy to their diocesan bishop, of synodals, pentecostals, etc. Onus importandi The charge of importing merchandise, mentioned in St. 12 Car. II. c. 28. Onus probandi Burden of … [Read more...]
ONE SATISFACTION RULE
A plaintiff who wins a case should only receive one award for a claim, not multiple awards from the same claim. … [Read more...]
ONUS PROBANDI
evidence. The burden of the proof. 2. It is a general rule, that the party who alleges the affirmative of any proposition shall prove it. It is also a general rule that the onus probandi lies. upon the party who seeks to support his case by a particular fact of which he is supposed to be cognizant; for example, when to a plea of infancy, the plaintiff replies a promise after … [Read more...]