A monastic officer. Du Cange. … [Read more...] about OBEDIENTARIUS
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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
OBLATA TERRAE
Half an acre, or, as some say, half a perch, of land. Spelman. … [Read more...] about OBLATA TERRAE
O. NI.
It was the course of the English exchequer, as soon as the sheriff entered into and made up his account for issues, amerciaments, etc., to mark upon each head "O. Ni.," which denoted oneratur, nisi habeat suflicientem exoncrationem, and presently he became the king's debtor, and a debet was set. upon his head; whereupon the parties paravaile became debtors to the sheriff, and … [Read more...] about O. NI.