Law Reports (1883–).
The 498th most frequently quoted source in the OED, with a total of 916 quotations (about 0.02% of all OED quotations).
| Lemma | Definition | Date | |
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| appointor | The form of appointer n. used in a specific legal sense: The person who exercises a power of appointment. | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| aval | An endorsement (lit. a writing ‘at the bottom’) on a commercial document, guaranteeing payment of it. | 1880 | Go To Quotation |
| chargee | The holder of a charge upon property, or of a security over a contract. | 1884 | Go To Quotation |
| Clapham | Clapham Sect: see sect n. 4b. Phr. the man on the Clapham omnibus: the ordinary or average man; the ‘man in the street’. | 1903 | Go To Quotation |
| co-property | Conjoint property. | 1876 | Go To Quotation |
| damnous | Of the nature of a damnum, i.e. causing loss or damage of any kind, whether involving a legal wrong (injury) or not. | 1870 | Go To Quotation |
| examinability | The quality of being examinable. | 1879 | Go To Quotation |
| linoleum | A kind of floor-cloth made by coating canvas with a preparation of oxidized linseed-oil. | 1878 | Go To Quotation |
| off-haul | A rope for drawing a boat out from the shore. | 1900 | Go To Quotation |
| pactorial | = pactional adj. | 1884 | Go To Quotation |
| repawn | An act of pawning something again. | 1866 | Go To Quotation |
| slidage | The payment for the right of using a log slide. | 1884 | Go To Quotation |
| stirpital | Pertaining to division per stirpes. | 1886 | Go To Quotation |
| unrebuttable | (un- prefix 7b 5b.) | 1869 | Go To Quotation |
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