WRIT OF : ENTRY
conspired to injure the. plaintiff, under the same circumstances which would now give him an action on the case. .
Terms beginning with "W" (262 total)
WRIT OF FALSE JUDGMENT. A
writ which appears to be still in use to bring appeals to the English high court from inferior courts not of record proceeding accord-
WRIT OF PROCLAMATION. In Eng
lish law. By the statute 31 Eliz. c. 3, when an eAigent is sued out, a writ of proclamation shall issue at the same time, commanding the sheriff of the county where the defendant dwells to make three proclamations thereo...
WRIT OF REVIEW
WRIT OF POSSESSION. This is the writ of execution employed to enforce a judgment to recover the possession of land. It commands the sheriff to enter the land and give possession of it to the person entitled under the jud...
WRIT OF RIGHT
(2) In code practice, a substitute for, or equivalent of, the writ of certiorari. California & O. Land Co. v. Gowen (C. C.) 48
WRIT PRO RETORNO HABENDO
A writ communding the return of the goods to the defendant, upon a judgment in his favor in replevin, upon the plaintiffs default.
WRITER OF THE TALLIES. In Eng
land. An officer of -the exchequer whose duty it was to write upon the tallies the letters of tellers’ bills.
WRONGFULLY INTENDING
ciently clerks in the office of the secretary of state, by whom writs were prepared and issued under the royal signet or seal; and, when the signet became employed in judicial proceedings, they obtained a monopoly of the...
WRONGOUS
priate to be used in alleging the malicious motive of the defendant In committing the injury which forms the cause of action.
Wulff, 148 Mo
542, 50 S. W. 439, 45 L. R. A. 53.—Dry weight. In tariff laws, this term does not mean the weight of an article after desiccation in a kiln, but its air-dry weight as understood in commerce. U. S. vy. Perkins, 66
Wyckoff, 1 Barb
(N. Y.) 575: Paterson v.
Wyo
322, 23 Pac. 69. 494