A Law Dictionary and Glossary

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.

The seat of the Lord Chancellor in the House of Lords; so called from its being a bag of wool.

In English law. A term applied to males, expressive in the law of descent of the preference given to them over females. >

An injury to the person, by which the skin is divided, or its continuity broken, — the whole skin, not the cuticle or upper skin merely.

The offense of inflicting a wound.

wrecfree, yvrectry. In old English law. Exempt from the forfeiture of shipwrecked goods and vessels to the king.

In American law. Goods cast ashore by the sea, and not claimed by the owner within a yeaiy or other specified period, — which become the property of the state. In English law. Good

wreccum, wreccum maris, wrectum, Lat.; Wrek, wreke, wrekke, L. Fr. In old English law. A thing thrown out of a ship, without the intention of reclaiming it; goods or other things c

A writing; a mandate or precept; an instrument in writing by which a court commands a person to whom it is directed to do some act; an instrument in writing, running in the name of

In Scots law. Anciently writers to the signet were clerks in the office of the secretary of state who prepared writs passing the king's signet, etc. They are attorneys or solicitor

The expression of ideas by letters visible to the eye; the outward, visible form in which the contract, will or direction of a person is expressed; a thing written; a written instr

Statute law; law deriving its force from express legislative enactment One of the two leadings divisions of the Roman ■law, comprising the leges, plebiseita, senatus-consulta, prin

The violation of a right, or of law, either by a positive act, or by neglecting to comply with some express requirement of law.

wrangous. In Scots law. Wrongful; unlawful.

sax. In old English law. Acquittance or immunity from amercement

I. In the civil law. Wrong-doing; the commission of an offense; malfeasance.

I. What is built upon land belongs to or goes with it ^dificator, I. In the civil law. A builder. j Edificinm, I In the civil law. A building, ^diflcia solo cednnt: buildings belon

gr.-l In the civil and old English law. An inn licensed for the entertainment of strangers; a place where sick and infirm persons were cared for; a hospital Y, fr. There. ¥ est; th

I. In civil and old English law. Valuation; rating, consideration. u Estiraatio capitis: the value of the head; a fine imposed for murder, varying in amount with the rank of the pe

Unfilled; empty; unclaimed. sion that is claimed by no person, known, or which all known heirs

/. In the civil law. owner; goods escheated.

I. In English ecclesiastical an incumbent Applied to a the rights of his assignor. Utitar rights. To outlaw; to put out of the law; law. Outlawry. The outlawing of a person; oututl

I. In the civil law. Exemption; immunity; exemption from the burden of offica yacation. Intermission of judicial proceedings; the time during which courts are not held; the period

In old English law. Mere assertion and denial, without oath.

I. I. In old English law. Waste; a cattle of all tenants who have a right forestae vel bosci: waste of a forest or wood or wood in which the trees and underwood it lay barren.

I In tl\e civil law. Nearness of dwelling; neighborbiood; a neighborhood; a neighboring place.

sed non dixit, I. He willed, but he did not say; he may have intended so, but he did not say so. v. Quod voluit, etc. yolameii, 2. In the civil law. A volume; so called from its fo