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Terms
- Oath
- A religious or solemn affirmation to tell the truth or to take a certain action.
Expanded Legal Definition of Oath
- Obiter Dictum
- Latin: an observation by a judge on a matter not specifically before the court or not necessary in determining the issue before the court.
Expanded Legal Definition of Obiter Dictum
- Obligations
- A legal requirement established by law, contract or as a result of unlawful harm caused to the person or property of another.
Expanded Legal Definition of Obligations
- Obligee
- The person who is to receive the benefit of someone else's obligation.
Expanded Legal Definition of Obligee
- Obligor
- A person who is contractually or legally, committed or obliged, to providing something to another person (the obligee).
Expanded Legal Definition of Obligor
- Obscenity
- A publication which is illegal because it is morally corruptive.
Expanded Legal Definition of Obscenity
- Obstructing Justice
- An act which tends to impede or thwart the administration of justice.
Expanded Legal Definition of Obstructing Justice
- Occupational Rent
- A matrimonial or joint tenant property compensatory claim based on an allegation that one spouse or joint tenant ought to be debited the value of her or his exclusive occupation of the family or jointly-held home.
Expanded Legal Definition of Occupational Rent
- Occupiers' Liability
- Liability of a person who controls land or building(s) in regards to damages caused to others who enter thereon.
Expanded Legal Definition of Occupiers' Liability
- Offense
- A crime; any act which contravenes the criminal law of the state in which it occurs. Spelled offence in Commonwealth countries.
Expanded Legal Definition of Offense
- Offer
- A explicit proposal to contract which, if accepted, completes the contract and binds both the person that made the offer and the person accepting the offer to the terms of the contract.
Expanded Legal Definition of Offer
- Officer
- A management-level employee of a corporation entrusted with discretion in the exercise of some portion of corporate powers.
Expanded Legal Definition of Officer
- Officially Induced Error
- A mistake of law caused by reliance upon erroneous legal advice obtained from an appropriate official.
Expanded Legal Definition of Officially Induced Error
- Oligarchy
- A form of government in which a few persons rule and govern by assuming all legislative and administrative authority.
Expanded Legal Definition of Oligarchy
- Ombudsman
- A person whose occupation consists of investigating customer complaints against his or her employer. Many governments have ombudsmen who will investigate citizen complaints against government services.
Expanded Legal Definition of Ombudsman
- Omnibus Bill
- A draft law before a legislature which contains more than one substantive matter, or several minor matters which have been combined into one bill, ostensibly for the sake of convenience.
Expanded Legal Definition of Omnibus Bill
- Onus
- Latin: the burden.
Expanded Legal Definition of Onus
- Open-Ended Agreement
- An agreement or contract which does not have an ending date but which will continue for as long as certain conditions, identified in the agreement, exist.
Expanded Legal Definition of Open-Ended Agreement
- Opening Statement
- A lawyer or litigant's initial remarks at trial, to the finder of fact, either a judge or jury, setting out their road-map or case theory.
Expanded Legal Definition of Opening Statement
- Order
- A formal written direction given by a member of the judiciary; a court decision without reasons.
Expanded Legal Definition of Order
- Order of the Coif
- The ancient order of barristers in England.
Expanded Legal Definition of Order of the Coif
- Ordinance
- An executive decision of a government which has not been subjected to a legislative assembly (contrary to a statute).
Expanded Legal Definition of Ordinance
- Orphan
- A person who has lost one or both of his or her natural parents.
Expanded Legal Definition of Orphan
- Out-of-Court Settlement
- An agreement between two litigants to settle a matter privately before the Court has rendered its decision.
Expanded Legal Definition of Out-of-Court Settlement
- Oversman
- The Scottish law term for umpire.
Expanded Legal Definition of Oversman
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