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The season between 11th November and 23d April, which isexcepted from the liberty of commoniug iu certain forests. St. 23 Car. II. c. 3.

Sax. In England. A down or champaign ground, hilly and void of wood.Cowell; Blount.

These terms mean an animal of the horse kind, which can be rendered fit for service, aswell as one of maturer age and In actual use. Winfrey v. Zimmerman, 8 Bush (Ky.)

A writ which anciently lay against persons who had Bl.LAWDict.(2d Dd.)

In Scotch law. An officer nearly corresponding to anattorney at law, in English and American practice. “Writers to the signet,” called also”clerks to the signet” derive their name from the circumstance that

Officers whose duty it formerly was to wait in attendance Qupon the court of chancery. The ollice was abolished in 1S42 by SL 5 & 0 Vict. c. 103. Mozley & Whitley.

Regardless of another’s rights. See WANTONNESS.

In Scottish law. Warranty; a clause in a charter or deed by which the grantor obliges himself that the right conveyed shall be effectual to the receiver. Ersk. Prin. 2, 3. 11.

In the language of the stock exchange, this is tlie operation performedby a broker who fills an order from one customer to buy a certain stock or commodityby simply transferring to him

N (chiefly in New England) a private way is onelaid out by the local public authorities for the accommodation of individuals and whollyor chiefly at their expense, but not restricted to their

A well, as the term is used in a conveyance, is an artificial excavation anderection in and upon land, which necessarily, from its nature and the mode of its use,includes and comprehends

One who owns or keeps a wharf for the purpose of receiving andshipping merchandise to or from it for hire.

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In old English law. The overseer of a wood. Cowell.

The name given to a code of maritime laws promulgated atWisby, then the capital of Gothland, in Sweden, in the latter part of the thirteenth century.This compilation resembled the laws of Oleron

In old English law. This term was used as descriptive of the conditionof an outlaw. Such persons were said to carry a wolf’s head, (caput lupinum;) for ifcaught alive they were to

In settling lay-days, or days of demurrage, sometimes the contractspecifies “working days;” In the computation, Sundays and custom-house holidays areexcluded. 1 Bell, Comm. 577.

The name of a writ which lies where one man has done anythingin the name of another, by which the latter is damnified and deceived. Fitzh. Nat. Brev.95, E.

The technical name by which a bond is described inpleading. Denton v. Adams, 6 Vt. 40.

A woman outlawed. The term is, as it were, the feminine of “outlaw,” tlie latter being always applied to a man; “waive,” to a woman. Cowell.