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| WADSET, | | Scotch law. A right, by which lands, or other heritable subjects, ... |
| WADSETTER | | Scotch law. A creditor to whom a wadset is made. ... |
| WAGER OF BATTEL | | A superstitious mode of trial which till lately disgraced the English ... |
| WAGER OF LAW, | | Engl. law. When an action of debt is brought against a ... |
| WAGER POLICY, | | contracts. One made when the insured has no insurable interest. ... |
| WAGERS | | A wager is a bet a contract by which two ... |
| WAGES, | | contract. A compensation given to a hired person for his or ... |
| WAIFS | | Stolen goods waived or scattered by a thief in his ... |
| WAIVE | | A term applied to a woman as outlaw is applied ... |
| WAIVER, | | The relinquishment or refusal to accept of a right. ... |
| WAKENING, | | Scotch law. The revival of an action.
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| WALL | | A building or erection so well known as to need ... |
| WANTONNESS, | | crim. law. A licentious act by one man towards the person ... |
| WAPENTAKE | | An ancient word used in England as synonymous with hundred. (q. ... |
| WAR | | A contention by force; or the art of paralysing the ... |
| WARD IN CHANCERY | | An infant who is under the superintendence of the chancellor. ... |
| WARD, | | domestic relations. An infant placed by authority of law under the ... |
| WARD, | | a district. Most cities are divided for various purposes into districts, ... |
| WARD, | | police. To watch in the day time, for the purpose ... |
| WARDEN | | A guardian; a keeper. This is the name given to ... |
| WARDSHIP, | | Eng. law. Wardship was the right of the lord over ... |
| WAREHOUSE | | A place adapted to the reception and storage of goods and ... |
| WAREHOUSEMAN | | A warehouseman is a person who receives goods and merchandise to ... |
| WARRANDICE, | | Scotch law. A clause in a charter of heritable rights by ... |
| WARRANT OF ATTORNEY | | practice. An instrument in writing, addressed to one or more attorneys ... |
| WARRANT, | | crim. law, Practice. A writ issued by a justice of ... |
| WARRANTEE | | One to whom a warranty is made. Touchst. 181. ... |
| WARRANTIA CHARTAE | | An ancient and now obsolete writ, which was issued when a ... |
| WARRANTOR | | One who makes a warranty. Touchst, 181.
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| WARRANTY, | | contracts. This word has several significations, as it is applied to ... |
| WARRANTY, VOUCHER TO, | | practice. A warranty is a contract real, annexed to lands and ... |
| WASTE | | A spoil or destruction houses, gardens, trees, or other corporeal hereditaments, ... |
| WASTE BOOK, | | com. law. A book used among merchants. All the dealings of ... |
| WATCH AND WARD | | A phrase used in the English law, to denote the superinten-dence ... |
| WATCH, | | police. To watch is, properly speaking, to stand sentry and attend ... |
| WATCHMAN | | An officer in many cities and towns, whose duty it ... |
| WATER | | That liquid substance of which the sea, the rivers, and creeks ... |
| WATER BAILIFF, | | English law. An officer appointed to search ships in ports. 10 ... |
| WATER COURSE | | This term is applied to the flow or movement of the ... |
| WATER ORDEAL | | An ancient form of trial, now abolished, by which the accused, ... |
| WAVESON | | This name is given to such goods as after shipwreck appear ... |
| WAY BILL, | | contracts. A writing in which is set down the names ... |
| WAY GOING CROP | | . In Pennsylvania, by the custom of the, country, a tenant ... |
| WAY, | | estates. A passage, street or road. A right of way ... |
| WAYS AND MEANS | | In legislative assemblies there is usually appointed a committee whose duties ... |
| WEAR | | A great dam made across a river, accommodated for the taking ... |
| WED | | A covenant or agreement; whence a wedded husband. ... |
| WEIGHAGE, | | mer. law. In the English law it is a duty ... |
| WEIGHT | | A quality in natural bodies, by which they tend towards the ... |
| WEIGHT OF EVIDENCE | | This phrase is used to signify that the proof on one ... |
| WELCH MORTGAGE, | | Eng. law, contracts. A species of security which partakes of the ... |
| WELL | | A hole dug in the earth in order to obtain ... |
| WELL KNOWING | | These words are used in a declaration when the plaintiff sues ... |
| WERE | | The name of a fine among the Saxons imposed upon ... |
| WERGILD, or WEREGILD, | | old Eng. law. The price which in a barbarous age, a ... |
| WETHER | | A castrated ram, at least one year old in ark ... |
| WHALER, | | mar. law. A vessel employed in the whale fishery. ... |
| WHARF | | A space of ground artificially prepared for the reception of merchan-dise ... |
| WHARFAGE | | The money paid for landing goods upon, or loading them from ... |
| WHARFINGER | | . One who owns or keeps a wharf, for the ... |
| WHEEL | | The punishment of the wheel was formerly to put a criminal ... |
| WHELPS | | The young of certain animals of a base nature, or ... |
| WHEN | | . At which time, in wills, standing by itself unqualified and ... |
| WHEN AND WHERE | | These words are used in a plea when full defence is ... |
| WHEREAS | | This word implies a recital, and in general cannot be used ... |
| WHIPPING, | | punishment. The infliction of stripes.
2. This mode ... |
| WHITE PERSONS | | . The acts of congress which authorize the naturalization of aliens, ... |
| WHITE RENT, | | English law. Rents paid in silver, and called white rents or ... |
| WHOLE BLOOD | | . Being related by both the father and mother's side; this ... |
| WHOLESALE | | To sell by wholesale, is to sell by large parcels, generally ... |
| WIDOW | | An unmarried woman whose husband is dead.
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| WIDOW'S CHAMBER, | | Eng. law. In London the apparel of a widow and the ... |
| WIDOWER | | A man whose wife is dead. A widower has a ... |
| WIDOWHOOD | | . The state of a man whose wife is dead ... |
| WIFE'S EQUITY | | By this phrase is understood the equitable right of a wife ... |
| WIFE, | | domestic relations. A woman who has a husband. ... |
| WILFULLY, | | intentionally.
2. In charging certain offences it is ... |
| WILL or TESTAMENT | | The legal declaration of a man's intentions of what he wills ... |
| WILL, | | criminal law. The power of the mind which directs the actions ... |
| WINCHESTER MEASURE | | The standard measure originally kept at Winchester, in England.
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| WINDOW | | An opening made in the wall of a house to ... |
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| WISCONSIN | | The name of one of the new states of the ... |
| WISTA | | Among the Saxons, this was a measure of land; it contained ... |
| WITH STRONG HAND, | | pleading. This is a technical phrase indispensable in describing a forcible ... |
| WITHDRAWING A JUROR, | | practice. An agreement made between the parties in a suit to ... |
| WITHERNAM, | | practice. The name of a writ which issues on the return ... |
| WITHOUT DAY | | This signifies that the cause or thing to which it relates ... |
| WITHOUT IMPEACHMENT OF WASTE | | When a tenant for life holds the land without impeachment of ... |
| WITHOUT RECOURSE | | Vide Sans Recours and Indorsement; Chit. on Bills, 179; 14 S. ... |
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