adj. Patent; visible; apparent; notorious; not clandestine; not closed, set tied, fixed, or terminated. Open bulk. In the mass; exposed to view; not tied or sealed up. In re Sanders (C. CA 52 Fed. 802, 18 L. R. A. 549. Open court. This term may mean either a court which has been formally convened and declared open for the transaction of its proper judicial business, or a court which is freely open to the approach of all decent and orderly persons in the character of spectators. Hobart v. Hobart, 45 Iowa, 501; Conover v. Bird, 56 N. J. Law, 228, 28 Ati. 428; Ex parte Branch, 63 Ala. 383; Hays v. Railroad Co., 99 Md. 413, 58 Atl. 439. Open doors. In Scotch law. “Letters of open doors” are process which empowers the messenger, or officer of the law, to break open doors of houses or rooms in which the debtor has placed his goods. Bell. Open fields, or meadows. In English law. Fields which are undivided, but belong to separate owners; the part of each owner is marked off by boundaries until the crop has been carried off, when the pasture is shared promiscuously by the joint herd of all the owners. Elton, Commons, 31; Sweet Open law. The making or waging of law. agna Charta, c. 21. Open season. That portion of the year wherein the laws for the preservation of game and fish permit the killing of a particular species of game or the taking of a particular variety of fish. Open theft. In Saxon law. The same with the Latin “furtum manifesium” (q. v.)
As to open “Account,” “Corporation,” “Insolvency.” “Lewdness.’ “Possession,” and. “Verdict” see those titles.