The name of a maritime code. Vide Laws of Oleron. … [Read more...] about OLERON LAWS
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OFFSPRING
This term is synonymous with "issue." Children. … [Read more...] about OFFSPRING
OLERON, LAWS OF
A code of maritime laws published at the island of Oleron In the twelfth century by Eleanor of Gui-enne. They were adopted In England successively under Richard I., Henry III., and Edward III., and are often cited before the admiralty courts. De Lovio v. Bolt, 2 Gall. 398, Fed. Cas. No. 3,776. … [Read more...] about OLERON, LAWS OF
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OLIGARCH
This name is given to designate the power which a few citizens of a state have usurped, which ought by the constitution to reside in the people. Among the Romans the government degenerated several times into an oligarchy; for example, under the decemvirs, when they became the only magistrates in the commonwealth. … [Read more...] about OLIGARCH