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Based on the Revised Sixth Edition of the 1856 Bouviers Law Dictionary by John Bouvier. The definitions in the Bouvier Law Dictionary are old, however many are still applicable.

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OVERSEERS OF THE POOR

Persons appointed or elected to take care of the poor with moneys furnished to them by the public authority. 2. The duties of these officers are regul...

OVERSMAN

Scotch law. A person commonly named in a submission, to whom power is given to determine in case the arbiters cannot agree in the sentence; sometimes ...

OVERT

ime; although a sin in the sight of heaven, is not an act amenable to human laws. The were speculative wantonness of a licentious imagination, however...

OWELTY

The difference which is paid or secured by one coparcener to another, for the purpose of equalizing a partition. Hugh. Ab. Partition and Partner, § 2,...

OWLER

Eng. law. One guilty of the offence of owling. ...

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