force majeure an event that no human foresight could anticipate or which, if anticipated, is too strong to be controlled.

• open verdict
• operative words
• opinion
• oral evidence
• order bill
• Order in Council
• ordinarily resident
• ostensible authority
• ostensible partner
• outgoing partner
• overdue bill
• overrule
• overseas company
• own brander
• ownership
• oyer and terminer
• oyez
• PACE
• pact
• pacta illicita
• pacta sunt servanda
• palinode
• Pandects
• pander
• panel