Category: W

A state of forcible contention; an armed contest between nations; a state of hostility between two or more nations or states. Gro. de Jur. B. lib. 1, c. 1. Every connection by

A person to whom a warranty is made.

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Sax. A wood; the woody part of a country.

In old records. A large extent of ground, comprising several juga; a perambulation;a circuit Spelman; Cowell.

Technical words in pleading, formerly necessary in making fulldefense to certain actions.

In old English law. A class of offenders who whitened stolen oxhidesand horse-hides so that they could not be known and identified.

merit. MeDaniel v. Johns, 45 Miss. 041. And see Jasper v. Jasper, 17 Or. 590, 22 Pac.152; Leathers v. Greenacre, 53 Me. 507; Cover v. Stem, 07 Md. 449, 10 Atl. 231,

To know; to learn; to be informed. Used only in the infinitive, to-cit, whichterm is equivalent to “that is to say,” “namely,” or “videlicet.”

In old records. A certain quantity of oats or other grain, paid bycustomary tenants to the lord, for liberty to pick up dead or broken wood. Cowell.

This term sometimes denotes all persons whatsoever who may have, claim,or acquire an interest in the subject-matter; as in saying that a judgment in rem binds”all the world.”

This Is either a writ of dower unde nihil habet, which lies for awidow, commanding the tenant to assign her dower, no part of which has yet been setoff to her; or

In Scotch law. Wrongful; unlawful; as wrongous imprisonment f| Ersk.Priu. 4, 4, 25.

In England. An officer of the exchequer whose duty itwas to write upon the tallies the letters of tellers’ bills.

In Scotch law. The old term for a mortgage. A right by which lands or other heritable subjects are impignorated by the proprietor to his creditor in security of his debt. Wadsets

In Scotch law. The revival of an action. A process by which an action that has lain over and not been insisted in for a year and a day, and thus technically

1. Guarding; care; charge; as, the ward of a castle; so in the phrase “watch and ward.” 2. A division in the city of London committed to the special ward (guardianship) of

In old practice. Warranty of charter. A writ which lay for onewho, being enfeoffed of lands or tenements, with a clause of warranty, was afterwardsimpleaded in an assize or other action in

ant who has committed waste of the premises. There were anciently several forms ofthis writ, adapted to the particular circumstances.

In old English law. The robbing of a dead man in his grave.