the term applied to an obligation that needs to be carried out as a matter of conscience and cannot be enforced by law.
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OBLIGATION PERFECT
a term referring to an obligation that can be upheld by an existing law and a legal right .
OBLIGATION PERSONAL
the name given to the obligation where a person binds himself to fulfill it and solely to carry it out.
OBLIGATION PRIMARY
the name given to the obligation that is the main or ;primary reason for a contract.
OBLIGATION PRINCIPAL
a term that refers to the main obligation .
OBLIGATION PURE
a term used to describe an obligation that is the main one.
OBLIGATION SECONDARY
the term that describes the obligation needing to be fulfilled if the principal obligation can’t be fulfilled.
OBLIGATIONS INCURRED
The amount at which transactions such as order placements, buying and selling of goods take place.
OBLIGATORY
The term ” writing obligatory ” is a technical term of the law, and means a written contract under seal. Watson v. Iloge, 7 i’erg. (Tenn.) 350.
OBLIGEE
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. […]
OBLIGOR
The person who has engaged to perform some obligation . Code La. art 3522, no. 12. One who makes a bond.
OBLIQUUS
Lat In the old law of descents. Oblique; cross; transverse; collateral. The opposite of rectus, right, or up- right. In the law of evidence . Indirect; circumstantial.
OBLITERATE
a term that is used to describe the cancelling out or erasing of written material in a legal document.
OBLITERATION
Erasure or blotting out of written words. Obliteration is not limited to effacing the letters of a will or scratching thein out or blotting them so completely that they cannot […]
OBLOQUY
To expose one to “obloquy” Is to expose him to censure and reproach, as the latter terms are synonymous with “obloquy.” Bettuer v. Holt, 70 Cal. 275, 11 Pac. 710.
OBRA
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,
OBREPTIO
Lat. The obtaining a thing by fraud or surprise. Calvin. Called, iu Scotch law, “obrcptiun.”
OBREPTION
Obtaining anything by fraud or surprise. Acquisition of escheats, etc., from the sovereign, by making false representations. Bell.
OBROGARE
Lat. In the civil 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 […]
OBROGATION
In the civil law . The alteration of a law by the passage of one in- consistent with it. Calvin.
OBSCENE
Lewd; impure; indecent; calculated to shock the moral sense of man by a disregard of chastity or modesty. Tim- inous v. U. S., 85 Fed. 205, 30 C. C. A. […]
OBSCENITY
The character or quality of beiug obscene; conduct tending to corrupt the public morals by its indecency or lewdness. State v. l’feuuiuger, 76 Mo. App. 313; U. S. v. Loftis […]
OBSCURE
a term that is used to describe something that is difficult to understand, unclear or is poorly expressed.
OBSERVE
In the civil law . To perform that which has been prescribed by some law or usage. Dig. 1, 3, 32. See Marshall County T. Knoll, 102 Iowa, 573, 69 […]
OBSERVER INSEPARABILITY
A theoretical concept that includes the observer and the measuring device as a part of the entire system or in the system definition.