Wing, Max., 113, 114, max
40; Broom, Max. 180.
Terms beginning with "W" (262 total)
Wing. Max
238. p. 110, max. 38. p. 705, max. 189. p. 620, max. 161. p. 497, max. 135. p. 411, max. 108; Finch, Law, b. 1, c. 3, no. 42. - p. 673, max. 175. ; p. 575, max. 148; Finch, Law, b. 1, c 3, no. 63. p. 382, max. 10...
Winnett v. Adams, 71 Neb
817, 99 N. W. 681. Or, as otherwise defined, civil rights are rights appertaining to a person in virtue ‘Of his citizenship in a state or community. Rights capable of being enforced or redressed in a civil action. Also...
Winnipiseogee Lake
etc.. Co. v. Gilford, 67 N.
Winst
(or Winst. Eg.). Winston’s Law or Equity Reports, North Carolina.
Winstead (D. C.) 12 Fed
51; Young v. Mc Pherson, 8 N. J. Law, 807. Judgment of hs peere. A trial by a jury of twelve men according to the course of the common law.
Winter. Dig
48, 20, 4, 34. Written, in some of the old books, “yems.” fFleta, lib. 2, c 73, §§ 16, 18. A
Winward v. Lincoln, 23 R. I. 476, 51 Atl
106, 64 L. R. A. 160; Edson v. Pawlet, 22 Vt. 203; Woodcock v. McQueen, 11 Ind. 15.
Wis
473, 35 N. W. 934. 90, 53 N. W. 35, 17 L. R. A. 145, 35 44, 22 N. W. 844, and cases cited. 93, 23 N. W. 425, 53 Am. Rep. 267; Isaacs v. Railroad Co., 47 N. Y. 122, 7 Am. 77, 95.N. W. 132, 266. —=—« —Construct...
WISBY, LAWS OF
estates by the tenure of chivalry were enabled to devise two-third parts thereof.
WISTA
formed the foundation for the subsequent code of the Hanseatic League. A translation of the Laws of Wisby may be seen in the appendix to 1 Pet. Adm. And see 3 Kent,
Witherick, 29 Minn
156, 12 N. W. 448; State vy. Simons, 30 Vt. 620; Miller v. State, 15
WITHOUT IMPEACHMENT OF
WASTE. The effect of the insertion of this clause in a lease for life is to give the tenant the right to cut timber on the estate, without making himself thereby liable to an action for waste.
WITHOUT RECOURSE
WITHDRAWING A JUROR. In practice. The withdrawing of one of the twelve jurors from the box, with the result that, the jury being now found to be incomplete, no further proceedings can be had in the cause. The withdrawing...
Witt, 32 N. Y. Super. Ct
552. <A distinction is to be taken between “literary property” (which is the natural, common-law right which a per son has in the form of written expression to which he has, by labor and skill, reduced his thoughts) ...
Wkly. Notes Cas
(Pa.). Weekly Notes of Cases, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Wm. IIl
c. 2, by which the crown of England was limited to the house of Hanover, and some new provisions were added at the same time for the better securing the religion, laws, and liberties—Deed of settlement. A deed made for...
Wm. IV
c. 74.—Preecipe, tenant to the. A person having an estate of freehold in possession, against whom the precipe was brought by a tenant in tail, seeking to bar his estate by a recovery.
Wm. IV, c
77, empowered to prgeest measures conducive to the efficiency of the established chureh, to be. ratified y orders in council.
Wms
482; 2 Atk. 174; 3 Atk. 392; 11 Ves. 194; Murray v. Ballow, 1 Johns. Ch. (N. Y.) 566, 580. 117.
WN. Y.) 582.’
SOMERSETT’S CASE. A celebrated de cision of the English king’s bench, in 1771, (20 How. St. Tr. 1,) that slavery no longer existed in England in. any form, and could not for the future exist on English soil, and that...
Wolff. Inst
(or Wolff. Inst. Nat.). Wolffius, Institutiones Juris Naturse et Gentium.
Wonson, 1 Gall
6, 12, Fed. Cas. No. 16,750.
Wood, 4 Johns. Ch
(N. Y¥.) 248; Coffee v.
Wood, Ins. § 40. See Insurance Co
v. Baltimore Warehouse Co., 98 U. 8S. 541, 23 L. Ed. 868; Insurance Co. v. Landau, 62 N. J. Eq. 73, 49 Atl. 788.
Woodruff, 49 Ark
381, 5 S. W. 792. 4 Am. St.
WOODS
citals, after the parties. It usually commences with a reference to the agreement or intention to be effectuated, then states or refers to the consideration, and concludes with the operative words and parcels, if any. Wh...
Woodward, 4 Wheat
518, 636, 657, 4 L. Ed. 629; U. 8. v. Trinidad Coal Co., 1387 U. 8. 160, 11 Sup. Ct. 57, 34 L. Ed. 640; Andrews
WOODWARDS
trees. The old books say that a grant of “all his woods” (omnes boscos suos) will pass the land, as well as the trees growing upon it. Co. Litt. 4b. See Averitt v. Murrell, 49 N. C. 328; Hall v. Cranford, 50 N. C. 8;...
Woolley, Introd. Log
45; 1 Mill, Log. 138.
Wooster v. Handy (C. C.) 28 Fed
36; Beebe v. Russell, 19 How. 283, 15 L. Ed. 668; Jenkins v. Wild, 14 Wend. (N. Y.) 543.
Wordin v. Bemis, 32 Conn
273, 85 Am. Dec. 255; Cross v. Beard, 26 N. Y. 85; The J. E.
WORK-BEAST, or WORKE-HORSE
These terms mean an animal of the horse kind, which can be rendered fit for service, as well as one of maturer age and in actual use. Winfrey v. Zimmerman, 8 Bush (Ky.) 587.
Works (C. C.) 18 Fed
864. An appearance may also be either compulsory or voluntary, the former where it is compelled by process served on the party, the latter where it is entered by his own will or consent, without the service of
Works v. Ray, 19 R. I. 456
34 Atl. 814; Taggart v. Rice, ’7 Vt. 47 ; Maxwell v. Griswold, 10 How. 255, 13 L. Ed. 405.
Works, p
26; Broom, Max. 588. COPULATIVE TERM. One which is
World’s Columbian Exposition Co
v. Republic of France, 96 Fed. 693, 38 0. C. A. 483.
WORT
WOREMAN. One who labors; one who is employed to do business for another.
WORTHIEST OF BLOOD
? "WORTHIEST OF BLOOD. In the English. Jaw of descent. A term applied to males, expressive of the preference given to them over females. See 2 Bl. Comm, 284- .2A0,
WORTHINESS
SECK. A want of remedy by distress. Litt. § 218. See Rent. Want of present fruit or profit, as in the case of the reversion without rent or other service, except fealty.
Worthington, 13 Colo
559, 22 Pac. 960, 6 L.
Wr. Ch
(or Wr. Ohio). Wright's Reports, Ohfo.
Wr. Pa. Wright’s Reports, vols
37-50 Pennsylvania State.
Wright v. Brown, 4 Ind
97, 58 Am. Dec. 622; xondon Assur. Co. v. Companhia De Moagens,
Wright v. U. S., 108 Fed
805, 48 C. C. A. 37;
Wright, 17 Tex
86. In the civil law (by the Lez Faicidia) it amounted to three-fourths. Mackeld. Rom. Law, §§ 708, 771.
WRIT
and casualties of or to ships on ‘or near the coast of the United Kingdom, whereby loss of life is caused. Sweet.
WRIT DE BONO ET MALO. See Dr
Bono ET MALO; ABSIZE.
WRIT DE RATIONABILI PARTE
BONORUM. A writ which lay for a widow, against the executor of her deceased husband, to compel the executor to set off to her a third part of the decedent’s personalty, after payment of his debts. Fitzh. Nat.
WRIT OF
SUMMONS. The writ by