Category: W

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.

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

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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

A curtilage or country farm.

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

In old English law. Acquittance or immunity from amercement

Conductors of vessels at sea. Cowell.

In old English law. A Welshman.

A guardian; a keeper. This is the name given to various officers.

A writ which lay for a man who, having had a day assigned himpersonally to appear in court in any action in which he was sued, was in the mean time,by commandment,

In old statutes. A kind of thieves.

An instrument used in fighting ; an instrument of offensive or defensivecombat. The term is chietly used, iu law, in the statutes prohibiting the carrying of”concealed” or “deadly” weapons. See those titles.

This was the price of homicide, or other atrocious personaloffense, paid partly to the king for the loss of a subject, partly to the lord for theloss of a vassal, and partly