Compliance with a com mund, prohibition, or known law and rule of duty prescribed; the performance of what is required or enjoined by authority, or the abstaining from what is prohibited, in compliance with the command or prohibition. Webster. … [Read more...] about OBEDIENCE
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OBJURGATRICES
In old English law.; Scolds or unquiet women, punished with the cucking-stool. … [Read more...] about OBJURGATRICES
OBEDIENTARIUS
A monastic officer. Du Cange. … [Read more...] about OBEDIENTARIUS
OBLATA
Gifts or offerings made to the king by any of his subjects; old debts, brought, as it were, together from preceding years, and put on the present sheriff's charge. Wharton. … [Read more...] about OBLATA
OBEDIENTIA
An office, or the administration of it; a kind of rent; submission; obedience. Obedicntia est legis essentia. 11 Coke, 100. Obedience is the essence of law. … [Read more...] about OBEDIENTIA