A Law Dictionary and Glossary

I. fr. In old English law. A vagabond, or vagrant.

In Scots law. A setting or putting to pledge; a disposition

Taga, I Z. In old English law. A measure of cheese, salt, wool, etc., containing two hundred and fifty-six pounds avoirdupois; a weigh.

In old English law. To give security for the performance of a thing. Wage battel: to give security for joining in the duellum. Wage law: to give security to make one's 1p,w.

I. fr. In old English law. Gage; pledge.

A contract by which two or more agree that a certain sum of money or other thing shall be paid or delivered to one of them, on the happening or not happening of an uncertain event;

CompensatioQ for services by the day, week or month; compensation to a hired person for his services.

waife, wayf, wayfe, weyfe. In English law. A thing stolen, which is thrown away by the thief in his flight, for fear of being apprehended.

Wainagiuin, wanaginm, waynagiuin, I. I. In old English law. The team and instruments of husbandry with which a villein performed his services.

To throw away from one; to throw aside, as a thief does the thing he has stolen, in his flight; to give up that of which one has the possession; to abandon; to relinquish voluntari

A throwing aside, abandonment or relinquishment; a passing by or over; the express relinquishment of a right or advantage, which one may enforce or insist upon; the implied relinqu

wayviare, weyviare, Z. ?. In old English law. To waive; to throw away; to forsake, or abandon; to outlaw a woman.

I. I. In old English laiv. The outlawing of a woman.

I. I. In old English laui. Waif; a waif.

In Scots law. The revival of an action, — a process by which

I. I. In old English law. To repair or keep up a wall; to wall or enclosa Wallatur fossato Tel haia: it is enclosed with a ditch or with a hedge.,

I. I. In old English law. Waleschery; the fact of being a Welshman.

Reckless; regardless of the right of others.

In English law. A division of a county in the north of England, corresponding with a hundred; a hundred court, or hundred-gemote.

An armed contest between nations, or between different portions of the same nation, — when between nations called public; when between portions of the same nation, and arising out

I. I. In old English law. Fallow; fallow-ground.

I. I In old English law. Warranty; guaranty.

Lat. In old English law. To warrant. Warantizare nihil aliud est quam tenentem vocantem defendere in sua seisina vel possessione erga petentem: to warrant is nothing else than to d

It In old English law. Warranty.

I I. In old English law. I warx-ant.

warrantus, I. I. In old English law. One who had covenanted to warrant another's title, and who might be called on, or vouched to defend it; a warrantor.

A person under the care of a guardian; a division of a city, — so called because under the care of an alderman. In English law. Ward-mote: a court held in every ward in London. In

vardare, 1. 1 In old Scots judgment.

In Saxon law. The ward; a court held in or for a ward.

One who has by office the keeper. In English law. Warden of the siding ofi Scer of the Cinque Ports.

In English law. established in the reign of Henry of matters relating to the king's tenure.

In feudal and old English act as guardian to the heir of a which consisted in having the the heir, without account of profits, males, and sixteen in females,

I. Jr. In old English law.

I. I. In old English law. land in the spring, in order to let until the sowing in the autumn.

waractuin, wareccuin, I. ground; land that has been neglected

I. I. In old English law.

I, I. In old English law. less.

In Scots law. Warranty by which the grantor obliges himself be effectual to the receiver.

To give assurance of the of a thing sold, or the validity of property insured.

An authority from competent process under seal, issued by some ofl Scer to whom it is directed to certain property. Warrant of rected to an attorney of a court of executing it, and

warantia, I. I. In old English law. Warranty. Warrantia charts): warranty of charter; a writ which lay for one who, being enfeoffed with a clause of warranty, was afterwards implea

warantizare, warentizare, warrantisare, Lat. In old English law. To warrant; to bind one's self by covenant in a deed of conveyance, to defend the grantee in his title and possessi

1. 1. ■ In old English law. Warranty.

warantus, I. I. In old English law. A warrantor; one who had warranted land by covenant, and might be called on or vouched to defend the title. Warrantum TOcare: to call or vouch a

An undertaking or stipulation, written or oral, that a fact relating to the subject of a contract is or shall be as stated or promised. An assurance by the seller on a sale of pers

In English law. A place privileged by prescription, or royal grant, for the keeping and preservation of certain animals, called beasts and fowls of warren: a franchise of killing c

Any squandering or misapplying of property by persons charged witii a trust or duty in respect to it, by which the property is lost or diminished in value; the destruction or mater

writ of. An old mixed action which lay for one who had the next estate of inheritance, against a tenant for life, etc., who was committing wasta It has long since given place to th

In English law. The duty of keepmg watch by night, and guard by day, in a town or other district; one of the principal duties of constables, arising from the statute of Winchester.

A stream of water, usually flowing in a defined channel, and discharging itself into some other stream or other body of water. Water-mark: means, when referred to as a boundary, th

One of the four great Roman roads in Britain.

In Scots law. A wand or staff carried by the messenger of a court, which, when he is hindered from executing process, he breaks, as a symbol of the deforcement, and protest for rem

A right of passage over land a right obtains; particularly of the owner of an article, or through the land of another, garded as a road, is public or road open to the public, as ar

A crop of grain times entitled by custom; a crop termination of the lease.

I. I In old English waif.

weyvare, 1. 1 In old English law. To waive, or abandon; to outlaw a woman.

sax. A wood; the woody

'weir. A place in a river, rowing the stream that the

Deteriration by

I. Debts. Debita the person of the debtor. In old English laiv. Debita law. A profession of Irreconcilable hatred revenge were obtained even by his death. v. Mortgage; Mortiiiim va

sax. In old English tenants paid in cutting corn or

A period of time, of seven ticularly, beginning Sunday next Saturday.

A mortgage now mortuum vadium, — being a payment of the principal, the in satisfaction of

wergild, weregelt, were.

sax. and" I. L In Saxon a were or fine; purgation upon the value or estimate of the

vergelt. In old Scots a compensation or satisfaction gild.; the path or road over which such the right of a man and his heirs, or of a certain class of persons, to pass — a kind of

I. L In old English law. In a state of war; at war.

1 1. In old English law. Wharfage; money paid at a wharf for lading or unlading goods.

to reverse the judgrecord. imitation or suppression of showing of an item in the debit in part erroneous. defeat; to reverse or avoid, as a accounting before a master, that is wron

A city adjacent to London; the seat of the four superior courts of the kingdom. Westminster I.: a statute of 3 Edw. I. containing fifty-one chapters and many provisions respecting

The laws of the West-Saxons, which obtained in the counties to the south and west of England, from Kent to Devonshire.

I I. In old English law. That which no one claims; waif.

Money paid for landing goods at a wharf, or for taking goods thence into a vessel; a fee for tying a vessel to a, wharf.

One who keeps a wharf.

An instrument of a barbarous capital punishment, said to have been first employed in Germany, in which the criminal is bound, with his limbs extended, and his limbs broken by blows

A fictitious name given to a piece of land. In old English law. White rent: rent payable in silver, or white money, v. Alba flrma; Blanch ferme. In Scots law. White bonnet: a ficti

/. I. In old English law. Offenders who whitened stolen ox-hides and horse-hides so that they could not be known and iden-tified.

Blood compounded wholly of the same ingredients; blood derived from the same couple of ancestors; kinship by descent from the same pair of ancestors.

Sale in a whole or unbroken quantity; sale of goods by the unbroken piece or in quantity.

wife, wye, saoo. In old English law. A house; a country house, or farm; a castle; a town, or village. Wic is a common termination of the names of towns and villages in England.

wich, wig, sax. In old English law. A bay of the sea or of a.

A termination of words denoting jurisdiction, or limits of jurisdiction or authority.

A woman who has lost her husband by death. Widow's quarantine: the time after the death of a man during whicli his widow may remain in his chief mansion without paying rent, and du

A woman who has a husband living. Wife's equity: the equitable right of a married woman to a reasonable and adequate provision, by way of settlement or otherwise, out of her choses

That faculty of the mind which chooses between one object or end and another; a disposition of real and personal property to take effect after the death of the person who makes it;

statute of. The statute of 13 Edw. I., by which the old Saxon law of police w.is enforced, with many additional provisions. Winchester measure: the standard measure of England, ori

laws of. A code of maritime laws, compiled at Wisbuy, Gothland, Sweden, towards the close of the thirteenth century, and soon afterwards adopted by all the nations of modern Europe

wyt, wyte, witt. In Saxon, old English and Scots law. Know; to know; to have knowledge of.

sax. In Saxon law. Wise men; persons of information, especially in the laws; the king's advisers, members of his council; the principal men of the kingdom.

wit, wyte. In Saxon law. A fine for an offense; distinguished from were, which was paid to the injured person or his relatives, in being paid to the crown or the magistrate; an ame

sax. In Saxon law. The judgment of the county court,,

wettena-geinote, law. The assembly of wise men, parliament, assembled on important

witeredeu, sax. In Saxon the West-Saxons, imposed by the subsidy. With. Along with in time or place; for. With strong liand: with a forcible entry.

A method of tion by leaving the juiy incomplete, which may be done by direction would be unjust to a party,— and drawing a record: a method of tion by withdrawing the nisi prius

sax. and eng., Withe.rnaiuiam, by way of reprisal; a taking of taken and e Joined or withheld so taking being by way of reprisal holding.

v. Sine liberis. ment of a day to appear again; inde sine die. Without impeachment leases for life, to give the tenant leased. Without more: without a clause in the indorsement of

A person who knows or ecution of an instrument, and firming its authenticity by his evidence to a judicial tribunal. nesses of sight and hearing, who of the modern jury. v. Compurg

A perpendicular bank of stone, earth, or timber raised on the shore of a harbor, river, canal, etc., or extending some distance into the water, for the convenience of lading and un

walfesheofod, sax. In Saxon law, A person outlawed. V. Wolfshead,

In old English law. A the protection of the law, and beast, in case he resisted apprehension, head.