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WOOD-GELD

In old English law. Money paid for the liberty of taking wood in aforest. Cowell.Immunity from such payment. Spelman.

WORSHIP

The act of offering honor and adoration to the Divine Being. Religiousexercises participated in by a number of persons assembled for that purpose, thedisturbance of which is a statutory offense in many

WRIT OF EJECTMENT

The writ in an action of ejectment, for the recovery of lands.See EJECTMENT.

WURTH

In Saxon law. Worthy; competent ; capable. Atheswurthe, worthy of oath;admissible or competent to be sworn. Spelman.

WADSETTER

In Scotch law. A creditor to whom a wadset is made, corresponding to a mortgagee.

WALAPAUZ

In old Lombardic law. The disguising the head or face, with the intent of committing a theft

WARDA

L. Lat. In old English law. Ward ; guard; protection ; keeping; custody. Spelman. A ward; an infant under wardship. Id. In old Scotch law. An award; the judgment .of a court.

WARRANTIA CUSTODL

An oldEnglish writ, which lay for him who was challenged to be a ward to another, In respectto land said to be holden by knight- service; which land, when it was bought

WASTE-BOOK

A book used by merchants, to receive rough entries or memorandaof all transactions in the order of their occurrence, previous to their being posted in thejournal. Otherwise called a “blotter.”

WEALTH

All material objects, capable of satisfying human wants, desires, or tastes,ha ring a value in exchange, and upon which human labor has been expeuded; i. e.,which have, by such labor, been either

WERZGELT THEF

Sax. In old English law. A robber who might be ransomed. Fleta.lib. 1, c. 47,

WHEREAS

A word which implies a recital of a past fact. The word “whereas,” whenit renders the deed senseless or repugnant, may be struck out as impertinent, and shallnot vitiate a deed in

WHOLESALE

To sell by wholesale is to sell by large parcels, generally in originalpackages, and not by retail.

WILLFUL

Proceeding from a conscious motion of the will; intending the result which actually conies to pass ; designed; intentional; malicious.A willful differs essentially from a negligent act. The one is positive and

WIT AN

In Saxon law. Wise men; persons of information, especially in the laws; theking’s advisers; members of the king’s council; the optimates, or principal men of thekingdom. 1 Spence, Eq. Jur. 11, note.

WOOD LEAVE

A license or right to cut down, remove, and use standing timber on agiven estate or tract of land. Osborne v. O’Reilly, 42 N. J. E

WRIT OF ENTRY

A real action to recover the possession of land where the tenant(or owner) has been disseised or otherwise wrongfully dispossessed. If the disseisor hasaliened the land, or if it has descended to

WYTE

In old English law. Acquittance or immunity from amercement

WAFTORS

Conductors of vessels at sea. Cowell.

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