Becoming obsolete; going out of use; not entirely disused, but gradually becoming so. … [Read more...] about OBSOLESCENT
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OBLIQUUS
Latin: In the old law of descents. Oblique; cross; transverse; collateral. The opposite of rectus, right, or upright In the law of evidence. Indirect; circumstantial. … [Read more...] about OBLIQUUS
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