Disused; neglected; not observed. The term is applied .to statutes which have become inoperative by lapse ot time, either because the reason for their enactment has passed away, or their subject matter no longer exists, or they are not applicable to changed circumstances, or are tacitly disregarded by all men, yet without being expressly abrogated or repealed. … [Read more...] about OBSOLETE
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OBLITERATION
Erasure or blotting out of written words. Obliteration is not limited to effacing the letters of a will or scratching them out or blotting them so completely that they cannot be read. A line drawn through the writing is obliteration, though it may leave it as legible as it was before. See Glass v. Scott, 14 Oolo. App. 377, 60 Pac. 186; Evans' Appeal, 58 Pa. 244; Townshend v. … [Read more...] about OBLITERATION
OBLOQUY
Public ridicule, criticism and scorn. Public disgrace. Public fault. … [Read more...] about OBLOQUY
OBLATIO
Latin: In the civil law. A tender of money in payment of a debt made by debtor to creditor. Whatever is offered to the church by the pious. Oalvin. Oblationes dicuntur qusecunque a pii» fidelibusque Christianis oflernntur Deo et ecclesiae, sive res solidse sive mobiles. 2 Inst 389. Those things are called "oblations" which are offered to God and to the church by pious and … [Read more...] about OBLATIO