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WITHOUT RESERVE, contracts. These words are frequently used in conditions of sale at ...
WITHOUT THIS, THAT, pleading. These are technical words used in a traverse, (q. v.) ...
WITHOUT, pleading. This word is adopted in formal traverses, and is a ...
WITNESS One who, being sworn or affirmed, according to law, deposes as ...
WITNESS INSTRUMENTARY, Scotch law. He who has attested a deed or other writing. ...
WITNESS, AGED It has been laid down as a rule that to ...
WITNESS, GOING A going witness is one who is about to leave ...
WOMEN, persons. In its most enlarged sense, this word signifies all the ...
WOODGELD, old Eng. law. To be free from the payment of ...
WOODS, A piece of land on which forest trees in great ...
WORD, construction. One or more syllables which when united convey an idea ...
WORK AND LABOR In actions of assumpsit, it is usual to put in ...
WORKHOUSE A prison where prisoners are kept in employment; a penitentiary. A ...
WORKING DAYS . In settling laydays, (q. v.) or days of demurrage, (q. ...
WORKMAN One who labors, one who is employed to do business ...
WORSHIP The honor and homage rendered to the Creator. ...
WORSHIP, Eng. law. A title or addition given to certain persons. 2 ...
WORTHIEST OF BLOOD All expression to designate that, in descent, the sons are to ...
WOUND med. jur. This term, in legal medicine, comprehends all lesions of ...
WRECK, mar. law. A wreck (called in law Latin, wreccum maris, and ...
WRIT DE BONO ET MALO . An ancient writ which was issued in the case of ...
WRIT DE EJECTIONE FIRMAE A writ of ejectment. Vide Ejectment, and 3 Bl. Com. 199. ...
WRIT DE HAERETICO COMBURENDO, Engl. law. The name of a writ formerly issued by the ...
WRIT DE HOMINE RELEGIANDO, practice. A writ which lies to replevy a man out of ...
WRIT DE ODIO ET ATIA, Engl. law. This writ is probably obsolete, and superseded by the ...
WRIT OF CONSPIRACY The name of an ancient writ, now superseded by the more ...
WRIT OF COVENANTS, practice. A writ which lies where a party claims damage for ...
WRIT OF DEBT, practice. A writ which lies where the party claims the re-covery ...
WRIT OF DECEIT The name of a writ which lies where one man ...
WRIT OF DETINUE, practice. A writ which lies where a party claims the spe-cific ...
WRIT OF DOWER, practice. A writ which lies for a widow ciaiming the specific ...
WRIT OF EJECTMENT, practice. The name of a process issued by a party claiming ...
WRIT OF ENTRY, practice. A writ requiring the sheriff to command the tenant of ...
WRIT OF ERROR, practice. A writ issued out of a court of competent jurisdiction, ...
WRIT OF EXECUTION, practice. A writ to put in force the sentence that the ...
WRIT OF EXIGI FACIAS The name of a process issued in the course of proceedings ...
WRIT OF FORMEDON, practice. This writ lies where a party claims the specific recovery ...
WRIT OF INQUIRY, practice. When in an action sounding in damages, (q. v.) as ...
WRIT OF MAINPRIZE, English law. A writ directed to the sheriff (either gen-erally, when ...
WRIT OF MESNE, Breve' de medio, old English law. A writ which was so ...
WRIT OF PRAECIPE This writ is also called a writ of covenant, and is ...
WRIT OF PREVENTION This name is given to certain writs which may be issued ...
WRIT OF PROCESS, Engl. law, pradice. If the defendant does not appear, in obedience ...
WRIT OF PROCLAMATION Engl. practice. A writ which issues, at the same time with ...
WRIT OF QUARE IMPEDIT, English law. The remedy by which, where the right of a ...
WRIT OF RATIONABILI PARTE BONORUM A writ which was sued out by a widow when the ...
WRIT OF RECAPTION, practice. This writ lies where, pending an action of replevin, the ...
WRIT OF REPLEVIN, practice. The name of a process issued for the recovery of ...
WRIT OF RESTITUTION A writ which is issued on the reversal of a judgment, ...
WRIT OF RIGHT, practice. The remedly appropriate to the case where a party claims ...
WRIT OF TOLT, Eng. law. The name of a writ to remove proceedings on ...
WRIT OF TRESPASS ON THE CASE, practice. A writ which lies where a party sues for damages ...
WRIT OF TRESPASS, practice. This writ lies where a party claims damages for a ...
WRIT OF WASTE The name of a writ to be issued against a ...
WRIT PRO RETORNO HABENDO, remedies, practice. The name of a writ which re-cites that the ...
WRIT, practice. A mandatory precept issued by the authority, and in the ...
WRIT, ORIGINAL, practice, English law. An original writ is a mandatory letter issuing ...
WRITING The act of forming by the hand letters or characters ...
WRITING OBLIGATORY A bond; an agreement reduced to writing, by which the party ...
WRITS, JUDICIAL, practice. In England those writs which issue from the common law ...
WRONG An injury; (q. v.) a tort (q. v.) a violation ...
WRONG-DOER One who commits an injury, a tort-feasor. (q. v.) Vide Dane's ...
WRONGFULLY INTENDING These words are used in a declaration when in an action ...
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