The person who has engaged to perform some obligation. Louis. Code, art. 3522, No. 12. The word obligor, in its more technical signification, is applied to designate one who makes a bond. 2. Obligors are joint and several. They are joint when they agree to pay the obligation jointly, and then the survivors only are liable upon it at law, but in equity the assets of a deceased … [Read more...] about OBLIGOR OR DEBTOR
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OBSOLESCENT
Becoming obsolete; going out of use; not entirely disused, but gradually becoming so. … [Read more...] about OBSOLESCENT
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