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To be charged or loaded with payments or occasional penalties. … [Read more...] about OCCASIONARI

1. To block up; to interpose obstacles; to render impassable; to fill with barriers or impediments; as to obstruct a road or way. 2. To impede or hinder; to interpose ob struct an officer in the execution of his duty. Davis v. State, 76 Ga. 722. 3. As applied to navigable waters, to "ob in their maneuvers. 4. As applied to the operation of rail man approaching on the track. … [Read more...] about OBSTRUCT

In old English law. Assarts. Spelman. Occultatio thesauri inventi fraudu losa. 3 Inst. 133. The concealment of discovered treasure is fraudulent … [Read more...] about OCCASIONES

crim. law. The act by which one or more persons attempt to prevent, or do prevent, the execution of lawful process. 2. The officer must be prevented by actual violence, or by threatened violence, accompanied by the exercise of force, or by those having capacity to employ it, by which the officer is prevented from executing his writ; the officer is not required, to expose his … [Read more...] about OBSTRUCTING PROCESS

Occupancy is a mode of acquiring property by which a thing which belongs to nobody becomes the property of the person who took possession of it, with the intention of acquiring a right of ownership in it. Civ. Code La. art. 3412; God dard v. Winchell, 86 Iowa, 71, 52 N. W. 1124, 17 L. R. A. 788, 41 Am. St. Rep. 481. The taking possession of things which before belonged to … [Read more...] about OCCUPANCY