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OBSTRUCTING PROCESS

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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

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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

OBSTRUCTION

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An obstacle. Something which obstructs. See obstruct. This is the word properly descriptive of an injury to any one's incorporeal hereditament, e.g., his right to an easement, or profit & prendre; an alternative word being "disturbance." On the other hand, "infringement" is the word properly descriptive of an injury to any one's patent rights or to his copyright. But … [Read more...] about OBSTRUCTION