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Of or pertaining to the system of rules which a particular country or community recognizes as regulating the actions of its members and which it may enforce by the imposition of penalties.

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order of filiation

Law; General law

An official document declaring a man to be the father of a child. Once the order is made, the father has an obligation to support the child and may have rights regarding the ...

outcry witness

Law; General law

The outcry witness is the person who first witnesses the child's outcry regarding the child's abuse, and is obligated to report the abuse to the concerned authorities.

outlaw

Law; General law

An act of being put out of the protection of the law, by a process regularly sued out against a person who is in contempt in denying to become amenable to the court having ...

outlawry

Law; General law

An act of being put out of the protection of the law, by a process regularly sued out against a person who is in contempt in denying to become amenable to the court having ...

overrule

Law; General law

It refers to a judge's dissent with an attorney's objection to a question to a witness or admission of evidence. Overrule may also refer to the appeals court overthrowing a ...

overt act

Law; General law

It's an action which might be innocent in itself, but if part of the preparation and active furtherance of a crime, can be considered as an evidence of a defendant's involvement ...