Category: W

A reckless or malicious and intentional disregard of the property, rights, or safety of others, implying, actively, a licentious or contemptuous willingness to injure and disregard of the consequences to others, and,

In conveyancing. To assure the title to property sold, by an express covenant to that effect in the deed of conveyance. To stipulate by an express covenant that the title of a

The sounding of a horn for washing before dinner. The customwas formerly observed In the Temple.

Implements of husbandry. 1 Reeve, Eng. Law, c. 5, p. 2G8.

A phrase used in pleading as the technical expression in laying ascienter, (q. v.)

An engine of torture used in medieval Europe, on which a criminal wasbound while his limbs were broken one by one till he died.

Whltehart, paid into the exchequer, imposed by Henry III upon Thomas de la Linda, for killing a beautiful white hart which that king before had spared in hunting. Camd.Brit 150.

Animals of an untamable disposition.WILD LAND. Land in a state of nature, as distinguished from improved or cultivatedland. Clark v. Phelps, 4 Cow. (N. Y.) 203.

formed the foundation for the subsequent code of the Hanseatic League. A translationof the Laws of Wisby may be seen in the appendix to 1 Pet. Adm. And see 3 Kent,Comm. 13.

All the females of the human species. All such females who have arrived at the age of puberty. Dig. 50, 16, 13.

One who labors; one who is employed to do business for another.

A writ of execution employed to enforce a judgment for thedelivery of chattels. It commands the sheriff to cause the chattels mentioned in the writto be returned to the person who has

One of the two leading divisions of the Roman law, comprising theleges, plebiscita, senatus-consnlta, prin- cipum plaeita, magistratuum edieta, and responsaprudentum. Inst 1, 2, 3.Statute law; law deriving its force from express

The renunciation, repudiation, abandonment, or surrender of some claim, right, privilege, or of the opportunity to take advantage of some select, irregular- Vity, or wrong. The passing by of an occasion to

In English law. A local division of the country; the name is in use north of the Trent to denote a hundred. The derivation of the name is said to be from

1. A writ or precept from a competent authority in pursuance of law, directing the doing of an act, and addressed to an officer or person competent to do the act, and

Atreaty signed on May 8, 1871, between Great Britain and the United States of America,with reference to certain differences arising out of the war between tbe northern andsouthern states of the Union,

In a legislativeTbody, the “committee on ways and means” is a committee appointed to inquire intoand consider the methods and sources for raising revenue, and to propose means forproviding the funds needed

See MORTGAGE.

Duty or toll paid for carts, etc., passing over certain ground. Cowell.