The main or open sea; the high sea; that portion of the sea which does not lie within the body of any country and is not subject to the territorial jurisdiction or control of any country, but is open, free, and common, to the use of all nations. See U. S. v. Rodgers, 150 U. S. 249. 14 Sup. Ct. 109, 87 L. Ed. 1071; D. S. v. New Bed-ford Bridge, 27 Fed. Cas. 120; De Lovio v. Boit, 7 Fed. Cas. 428; U. S. v. Morel, 26 Fed. Gas. 1312
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In old Scotch law. A name of dignity; a freeholder. Skene de Verb. 8lgn
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Lat in old English la*. A writ that lay for one who was ejected out of his land or tenement in time of war. Cowell
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Ah occupant; one who la hi the enjoyment of a thlng
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Lat in the civU law. To seize or take possession of; to enter upon a vacant possession; to take possession before another. Calvin
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That which has been’ left by the right owner, and is now possess-* ed by another
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occupancy is a mode of acquiring property- by which a thing which belongs to nobody becomes the property of the person who took possession of it, with the intention of acquiring a right of owner-ship in it. Civ. Code La. art. 3412; God-dard v. winchell, 86 Iowa, 71, 52 N. W. 1124, 17 L R. A. 788, 41 Am. St Rep. 481
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To be charged or load-ed with payments or occasional penalties
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In Spanish law. Accldent. Las Partidas, pt. 3, tit. 32, 1. 21; white, New Recop. b. 2, tit. 9, c. 2
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In feudal law. A tribute which the lord Imposed on his vassals or tenants for hls necessity. Hindrance; trouble; vexation by suit
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(offered hlmself.) In old practice. The emphatic words of entry on the record where one party offered Mm-self in court against the other, and the iat-ter did not appear. 1 Reeve, ling. Law, 417
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In Roman law. Taking by the neck or collar; as a plalntlff was allowed to drag a reluctant defendant to court. Adams, Rom. Ant 242
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To acquire; to get hold of by effort; to get and retain possession of; as, in the offense of “obtaining” money or property by false pretenses. See Com. v. Schmunk, 207 Pa. 544, 56 Ati. 1088,. 90 Am. St. Rep. 801; People v. General Sessions, 13 Hun (N. Y.) 400; State v. will, 49 La. Ann. 1337, 22 Sonth. 378; Sundmacher v. Block, 39 Hl. App. 553
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Lat To obey. Hence the Scotch “obtemper,” to obey or comply with a Judgment of a court
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In criminal law. The act hy which one or more persons attempt to prevent or do prevent the execution of lawful process
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This is the word properly descriptive of an injury to any one’s
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1. To block up; to inter-pose obstacles; to render impassable; to fill with harriers or impediments; as to obstruct a road or way. U. S. v. williams, 28 Fed. Cas. 633; Chase v. Oshkosh, 81 wis. 313, 51 N. W. 560, 15 L. R. A. 553, 29 Am. St. Rep. 898; overhouser v. American Cereal Co., 118 Iowa, 417, 92 N. W. 74; Gorham v. withey, 52 Mich. 50,17 N. W. 272
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Lat. withstand beginnings; resist the first approaches or encroachments. “It is the duty of courts to be’watchful for the constitutional rights of the citizen, and against any stealthy en-croachments thereon. Thelr motto should be *obsta principiis: ” Bradley, J., Boyd v
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