Category: W

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.

The feast of Pentecost, being the fiftieth day after Easter, and thefirst of the four cross-quarter days of the year. Wharton.

A devise to B. and his children or issue, B. having no issueat the time of the devise, gives him an estate tail; but, if he have issue at the time, B.and

In Saxon law. Half a hide of land, or sixty acres.

Sax. In old records. A field. Spelman; Cowell.

This term means sometimes a mill, factory, or other establishment for performingindustrial labor of any sort, (South St. Joseph Land Co. v. Pitt 114 Mo. 135, 21S. W. 449,) and sometimes a

A writ which lies where a party claims the specific recovery ofgoods and chattels, or deeds and writings, detained from him. This is seldom used;trover is the more frequent remedy, In cases

In thelanguage of pleading, this phrase is approNpriateto be used in alleging the malicious motive of the defendant in committing theInjury which forms the cause of action.

L. Fr. A vagabond, or vagrant. Britt. c. 29.

The chief magistrate of Ripon, in Yorkshire.

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.