Becoming obsolete: going out of use; not entirely disused, but gradually becoming so
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Disttsed; neglected; not observed. The term is applied to statutes
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Lat in the civil law. To seal up; as money that had been tendered and refused
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In the clvll law. To per* form that which has been prescribed by some law or usage. Dig. 1, 3, 32. See Marshall County v. Knoll, 102 Iowa, 573, 60 N. W. 1140
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Lat. In the law of war. A hostage. Obsides, hostages.
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Lewd; ftnpure; indecent; calculated to shock the moral sense of man by a disregard of chastity or modesty. Tim-mous v. u. S., 85 Fed. 205, 30. C. C. A. 74; U. S. v. Harmon (D. C.) 45 Fed. 414; Dunlop v. U. S., 105 U. S. 486, 17 Sup. CL 375. 41 L. Ed. 799; Com. V. Landis, 8 Phila. (Pa.) 453
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The character or quality of beiug obscene; conduct tending to corrupt the public morals by its indecency or lewdness. State v. Pfeuninger, 76 Mo. App. 313; U. S. v. Loftis (D. C.) 12 Fed. 67L
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Lat in tbe civU law. To pass a law contrary to a former law, or to some clause of it; to change a former law in some part of it. Calvin
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In the civU law. The alteration of a law by the passage of one in-consistent with it Calvin
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Lat. The obtaining a thing by fraud or surprise. Calvin. Called, in Scotch law, “obreption
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obtaining anything by fraud or surprise. Acquisition of escheats, etc., from the sovereign, by making faise rep* resentations. Beit
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To expose one to “obloquy” is to expose him to censure and reproach, as the latter terms are synonymous with “obloquy.” Bettner v. Holt, 70 Cal. 275, 11 Pac. 716
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In Spanish law. work. Obras, works or trades; those which men carry on in houses or covered places, white, New Recop. b. 1, tit 5, c. 3, I 6
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I,at In tbo old law of desoents. oblique; cross; transverse; col-lateral. Tbe opitoslte of rvetus, right, or up-right
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The person in favor of whom some obligation is contracted, whether such obligation be to pay money or to do or not to do something. Code La. art. 3522, no. 11. The party to whom a bond is given
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The persou who has engaged to perform some obligation. Code La. art. 3522, no. 12. one who makes a bond
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An obligation is a legal duty, by which a person is bound to do or not to do a certain thing. Civ. Gode CaL § 1427; Civ. Code Dak. | 798. •
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The term “writing ob-ligatory” is a technical term of the law, and means a writteu contract under seal, wat-son v. Hoge, 7 Yerg. (Tenn.) 850
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To bind or constrain; to bind to the observance or performance of a duty ;, to place under an obligation. To bind one’s self by an obligation or promise; to as* surae a duty; to execute a written promise or covenant; to make a writing obligatory. Wachter v. Famachon, 62 wis. 117, 22 N. W. 160; Maxwell v. Jacksonville Loan & Imp. Co., 45 Fla. 425, 34 South. 255
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Lat in Roman law. Tbe legal relatlon existing between two Certain persons whereby one (the creditor) is au-thorlzed to demand of the otber (the debtor) a certain performance which has a money value. In this sense obligatio signifies not o^ly the duty of the debtor, but also tbe rlght of the creditor. The fact establishing such claim and debt, as also tbe lnstrument evl-dencing it, is termed “obligation.” Mackeld. Rom. Law,. | 360
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In the civU law. An actlon given to a party against another who had offered to him a stolen thing, which was found in his possession. InsL 3,1,4
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Lat. In the civU law. A tender of money in payment of a debt made by debtor to creditor, whatever is offered te the church by the pious. Calvin
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