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or obventions, are offerings or customary payments made, in England, to the ominister of a church, including fees on marriages, burials, mortuaries, etc., (q. v.) and Easter offerings. 2 Steph. Comm. 740; BhUllm. Ecc. Law, 1606. They may be commuted by agreement. … [Read more...] about OBLATIONS

Obtaining anything by fraud or surprise. Acquisition of escheats, etc., from the sovereign, by making false representations. Bell. … [Read more...] about OBREPTION

To bind or constrain; to bind to the observance or performance of a duty; to place under an obligation. To bind one's self by an obligation or promise; to assume a duty; to execute a written promise or covenant; to make a writing obligatory. … [Read more...] about OBLIGATE

Latin: In the civil law. To pass a law contrary to a former law, or to some clause of it; to change a former law in some part of it Calvin. … [Read more...] about OBROGARE

Latin: In Roman law. The legal relation existing between two certain persons whereby one (the creditor) is authorized to demand of the other (the debtor) a certain performance which has a money value. In this sense oMigatio signifies not only the duty of the debtor, but also the right of the creditor. The fact establishing such claim and debt, as also the instrument evidencing … [Read more...] about OBLIGATIO