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661 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. OBLIGATION.2 (Noah Webster)
… constitutes legal or moral duty, and which renders a person liable to coercion and punishment for neglecting it. The laws and commands of God impose on us …
662 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. OBLIGE.3 (Noah Webster)
2. To constrain by legal force; to bind in law. We are obliged to pay toll for supporting roads and bridges.
663 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. OBSERVATION.6 (Noah Webster)
He freed the christian church from the external observation and obedience of legal precepts not formally moral.
664 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. OCCUPANT.3 (Noah Webster)
2. In law, one that first takes possession of that which has no legal owner. The right of property, either in wild beasts and fowls, or in land belonging to no person, vests in the first occupant. The property in these cases follows the possession.
665 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. OWN.10 (Noah Webster)
1. To have the legal or rightful title to; to have the exclusive right of possession and use. A free holder in the United states owns his farm. Men often own land or goods which are not in their possession.
666 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. OWN.11 (Noah Webster)
2. To have the legal right to, without the exclusive right to use; as, a man owns the land in front of his farm to the middle of the highway.
667 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. OWNED.2 (Noah Webster)
1. The legal title being vested in; as, the property is owned by a company.
668 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. OWNER.1 (Noah Webster)
OWNER, n. The rightful proprietor; one who has the legal or rightful title, whether he is the possessor or not.
669 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. OWNERSHIP.1 (Noah Webster)
OWNERSHIP, n. Property; exclusive right of possession; legal or just claim or title. The ownership of the estate is in A; the possession is in B.
670 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. OWNING.2 (Noah Webster)
1. Having the legal or just title to.
671 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PARISH.3 (Noah Webster)
… , the legal appellation of such a society is ecclesiastical society.
672 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PAROL.2 (Noah Webster)
1. Properly, a word; hence, in a legal sense, words or oral declaration; word of mouth. Formerly, conveyances were made by parol or word of mouth only.
673 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PASS.56 (Noah Webster)
13. To approve or sanction by a constitutional or legal majority of votes; as, the house of representatives passed the bill. Hence,
674 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PERPETUAL.8 (Noah Webster)
5. During the legal dispensation. Exodus 29:9 .
675 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PIRATE.3 (Noah Webster)
2. An armed ship or vessel which sails without legal commission, for the purpose of plundering other vessels indiscriminately on the high seas.
676 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PLEAD.13 (Noah Webster)
3. To allege and offer in a legal plea or defense, or for repelling a demand in law; as, to plead usury; to plead a statute of limitations.
677 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. POLLUTE.2 (Noah Webster)
… a legal or ceremonial sense, so as to disqualify a person for sacred services, or to render things unfit for sacred uses. Numbers 18:32; Exodus 20:25; 2 Kings 23 …
678 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. POLLUTION.4 (Noah Webster)
3. In the Jewish economy, legal or ceremonial uncleanness, which disqualified a person for sacred services or for common intercourse with the people, or rendered any thing unfit for sacred use.
679 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. POOR.24 (Noah Webster)
17. The poor, collectively, used as a noun; those who are destitute of property; the indigent; the needy; in a legal sense, those who depend on charity or maintenance by the public.
680 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. POSPOLITE.2 (Noah Webster)
… any legal precept which is forcibly opposed. The word comitatus is often omitted, and posse alone is used in the same sense.