Terms beginning with "W" (262 total)

W. 326

f a man be said to have aliened land tn fee, and he says he has not aliened in fee, this is a negative pregnant; for, though it be true that he has not aliened in fee, yet it Bas that he has made an estate in tail. owell...

W. 372, 61 Am. St. Rep

831. On the other band bestiality is the carnal copulation of a human being with a brute, or animal of the sub-human orders, of the opposite sex. It is not identical with sodomy, nor is it a form of sodomy, though the tw...

W. 763: San Diego Land Co

v. Neale, 78 Cal. 63, 20 Pac. 372, 3 L. R. A. 83.—Market zeld, (properly market geld.) In old records. The toll of a market. Cowell._—Public market. A market which is not only open to the resort of the general public...

W. 974

se -—Beer-house. In English law. A _ place where beer is sold to be consumed on the premises; as distinguished from a “beer-shop,” which

W. Va

426, 44S. E. 255. 165, 14 S. E. 465, 82 Am. St. p. 349, 40 S. B. 402; Curley v. U. 8. 180 Fed. 1, 64 C. C. A. 369. 442, 21 S. BD. 755.~Estoppel by deed is where a party has executed a deed, that is, a writing under se...

Walk

(Miss.) 85.—Reasonable part. In ol English law. That share of a man’s goods which the law gave to his wife and children after his decease. 2 Bl. Comm. 492. (or Walker). Walker's Mississippi Reports ;—Walker'’s M...

Walker (C. GC.) 79 Fed

141; Potter v. Ross, 23 .N. J. Law, 517; Bates’ Ann. St. Ohio, 1904, § 2860.—Poll tax. See that title— Public tax. A tax levied for some general public purpose or for the purposes of the general public revenue, as...

WALL

ton, 50 N. H. 54; Smiley v. Barker, 83 Fed. 684, 28 C. C. A. 9; Boos v. Ewing, 17 Ohio, 523, 49 Am. Dec. 478. as “ancient wall,” “party-wall,” “divisionwall,” ete.

Wall. , 20 L. Ed

779. The term is often applied to a similar receipt and undertaking given by a carrier of goods by land. A bill of lading is an instrument in writing, signed by a carrier or his agent, describing the freight so as to ide...