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withstanding; hindering. See Non obstaktb Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Becoming obsolete: going out of use; not entirely disused, but gradually becoming so Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Disttsed; neglected; not observed. The term is applied to statutes Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Lat in the civil law. To seal up; as money that had been tendered and refused Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed […]

Ratifying and con-firming Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In the clvll law. To per* form that which has been prescribed by some law or usage. Dig. 1, 3, 32. See […]

Lat. In the law of war. A hostage. Obsides, hostages. Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Lewd; ftnpure; indecent; calculated to shock the moral sense of man by a disregard of chastity or modesty. Tim-mous v. u. S., […]

The character or quality of beiug obscene; conduct tending to corrupt the public morals by its indecency or lewdness. State v. Pfeuninger, […]

Lat in tbe civU law. To pass a law contrary to a former law, or to some clause of it; to change […]

In the civU law. The alteration of a law by the passage of one in-consistent with it Calvin Source: Black’s Law Dictionary […]

Lat. The obtaining a thing by fraud or surprise. Calvin. Called, in Scotch law, “obreption Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

obtaining anything by fraud or surprise. Acquisition of escheats, etc., from the sovereign, by making faise rep* resentations. Beit Source: Black’s Law […]

To expose one to “obloquy” is to expose him to censure and reproach, as the latter terms are synonymous with “obloquy.” Bettner […]

In Spanish law. work. Obras, works or trades; those which men carry on in houses or covered places, white, New Recop. b. […]

I,at In tbo old law of desoents. oblique; cross; transverse; col-lateral. Tbe opitoslte of rvetus, right, or up-right Source: Black’s Law Dictionary […]

Erasure or blotting eut of written words Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

The person in favor of whom some obligation is contracted, whether such obligation be to pay money or to do or not […]

The persou who has engaged to perform some obligation. Code La. art. 3522, no. 12. one who makes a bond Source: Black’s […]

An obligation is a legal duty, by which a person is bound to do or not to do a certain thing. Civ. […]

The term “writing ob-ligatory” is a technical term of the law, and means a writteu contract under seal, wat-son v. Hoge, 7 […]

To bind or constrain; to bind to the observance or performance of a duty ;, to place under an obligation. To bind […]

Lat in Roman law. Tbe legal relatlon existing between two Certain persons whereby one (the creditor) is au-thorlzed to demand of the […]

In the civU law. An actlon given to a party against another who had offered to him a stolen thing, which was […]

Lat. In the civU law. A tender of money in payment of a debt made by debtor to creditor, whatever is offered […]