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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.

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.