OVE 
The word is alfo ufed fora ftrain, or painful {welling, 
of. the matter-finew of a horfe; occafioned by fuch over- 
reach. 
OVER-RIDE, the fame with over-done. 
OVER-RULING an Objeétion, in Law, is the rejecting 
or fetting it alide by the court. 
OVER-RUNNING, among Printers. 
and CoRRECTION. 
OVERSAMESSA, an ancient fine or penalty, impofed 
before the ftatute of hue and cry, on fuch perfons, as, hear- 
ing of a robbery or murder, did not purfue the male- 
factor. 
OVERSEERS of the Poor, are public officers, who muft 
be fubftantial houfeholders, (under which relative term day- 
labourers may be comprehended, if there be no other perfon 
to ferve, and they muft be generally refident in the parihh, ) 
i nominated yearl 
See PrinTInG, 
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vide for the poor of every p 
three, or four, according to the largenefs of the parifh: but 
not more than four nor lefs than two can be appointed. By 
. c. 38. inevery townfhip or place where are no 
churchwardens, the overfeers alone may act in all refpedts as 
churchwardens overfeers may do in other places by 
virtue of this or any former at; and if any overfeer fhall 
i e, or become infolvent, before the expiration 
cap. 28. 
Their office and duty, according to ftat. 43 Eliz. are 
principally thefe: firft, to raife competent fums for the ne- 
ceflary relief of the poor, impotent, old, and blind, and fuch 
as are not able to work ; and, fecondly, to provide for fuch 
are able, and fi 
the other, is now moft fh 
However, for thefe joint purpofes, they are empowered tu 
make and levy the feveral inhabitants of the 
parifh, by the fame a& of parliament, which has been far- 
ther enforced and explained by feveral fubfequent ftatutes. 
(See Ratz.) And by 17 Geo. II. cap, 38. if any per- 
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but if reafonable notice be not yiven, then they fhall' adjourn 
the appeal to the next quarter feflions; and the court may 
award reafonable cofts to either party. 
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fums b re 
and not received, and alfo of fuch ftock as fhall be in their 
verfeers, by warrant from two fuch juftices, may levy by 
diftrefs and fale of the offender's goods the faid {ums or ftock 
which fhall be behind on any account to be made; and in de- 
feé&t of fuch diltrefs, two fuch juftices may commit him to 
the common gaol, there to remain without bail or mainprize, 
upon the faid account fha 
And by the 17 G. II. c. 3 
The churchwardens and overfeers fhall yearly, 
ftice ; 
aol, till they fhall have given fuch account, or tha 
eo. 
other debts are paid. » c. 38. 
In cafe of an overfeer becoming a bankrupt, the en 
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