Law Dictionary

In this section, the term "World Bank Group" means the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the International Development Association, the International

The term “world communism” means a revolutionary movement, the purpose of which is to establish eventually a Communist totalitarian dictatorship in any or all the countries of the

In a statute which prohibits performing worldly employment on the Lord's day, has been held to include driving a public conveyance (a street car) for hire. Commonwealth v. Jeandell

Personal property. See 78 Mo. 212, 47 Am. Rep. 107.

The terms “World Trade Organization” and “WTO” mean the organization established pursuant to the WTO Agreement. / The terms “World Trade Organization” and “WTO” mean the organizati

The term “World War I” includes the period from April 6, 1917, to March 3, 1921. / The term “World War I” means the period beginning on April 6, 1917, and ending on November 11, 19

The term “World War II” includes the period from September 8, 1939, to July 25, 1947, at 12 o'clock noon. / The term “World War II” means the period beginning on September 9, 1940,

In this section, the term “World War II memorial” means the memorial authorized by Public Law 103–32 (40 U.S.C. 8903 note) to be established by the Commission on Federal land in th

The term “World War II veteran” means a person who— (A) served during World War II— (i) in the active military, naval, or air service of the United States during World War II; or (

For purposes of subparagraph (A), the term “worldwide current investment yield” means the percentage obtained by dividing— (i) the net investment income of the company from all sou

For purposes of this subsection, the term “world-wide operations” means operations in or related to countries other than the United States.

The act of paying divine honors to the Supreme Being; religious reverence and homage; adoration paid to God or a being viewed as God; adoration; a religious act of reverence; honor

“worst case discharge” means— (A) in the case of a vessel, a discharge in adverse weather conditions of its entire cargo; and (B) in the case of an offshore facility or onshore fac

primarily and popularly a yarn or fabric made wholly of wool.

The term “worst forms of child labor” means— (A) all forms of slavery or practices similar to slavery, such as the sale or trafficking of children, debt bondage and serfdom, or for

An expression used to designate that in descent the sons are to be preferred to daughters, which is the law of England. See some singular reasons given for this in Plowd. 305.

or WORTHING OF LAND. A certain quantity of land so called in the manor of Kingsland, in Hereford. The tenants are called "worthies."

A certain quantity of land so called in the manor of Kingsland, in Hereford. The tenants are called "worthies." Wharton.

A curtilage or country farm.

In the practice of the English high court, either party to an action may call on the ether party by notice to admit the existence and execution of any document, in order to save th

Knowledge; information; intelligence; notice. Wotitia dicitur a noscendo; et notitia non debet claudicare. Notice is named from a knowledge being had; and notice ought not to halt,

A special traverse used in an action of trover, alleging that defendant was not possessed, at the time of action brought, of tie chattels alleged to have been converted by him.

In this subparagraph, the term “wound” means an injury involving division of tissue or rupture of the integument or mucous membrane with exposure to the external environment.

and contemplates cases of traumatism and nervous troubles, the consequences of which do not immediately become manifest in the organism but which can be related to the accident.' "

See Assise or Nove. DIssEIsin.

Lat. It does not appeat; it is ust clear or evident. A phrase used in general to state some conclusion ag not necessarily following alihough it may appear on its face to follow.

Hurtful; offensive; offensivetothesmell. 1 Burrows, 337, The word “noxious” includes the complex idea both of insalubrity and offensiveness. Id.

A wreck of the sea signifies those goods which are driven to shore from a shipwreck.

Exempt from the forfeiture of shipwrecked goods and vessels to the king. Cowell. name of the sovereign or the state, for the purpose of compelling the defendant to do something the

Shipwreck is a matter of revenue. In a legal wreck, the goods must come on shore. Fetsam, flotsam and ligan, are not matters of revenue, and are cognizable in the Admiralty; but wr

Persons appointed by the English lord chancellor under Merch. Shipp. Act 1876, § 29, to hold investigations at the request of the board of trade into losses,, abandonments, damages

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

Process in a civil action, a warrant in a criminal one. See 23 Conn. 238. See, also, Process; Warrant. See, also, many different sorts of writs beginning with the prefix De, follow

ORIGINAL, practice, in the English law. An original writ is a mandatory letter issuing out of the court of chancery, under the great seal, and, in the king’s name, directed to the

It is the sheriff's duty, say the court, to obey the writ, and the writ commands him to take the defendant and him safely keep, so that he may have him ready to satisfy the plainti

This is the name of an old writ which directs the sheriff to inquire whether a man be an idiot or not. The inquisition is to be made by a jury of twelve men. Fitz. N. B. 282.

See De Bono et Malo; Assize. WRIT DE EJECTIONE FIRM /E. See Ejectment. WRIT DE H/ERETICO C0MBUREND0. See De IBeretico Comburendo. WRIT DE HOMINE R EPLEGI AN D 0. See De Homine Repl

An English chancery writ to aid in carrying out a sentence of excommunication. See 18 Vt. 511.

In English law. The name of a writ formerly Issued by the secular courts, for the execution, by burning, of a man who had been convicted in the ecclesiastical courts of heresy.

This is the name of an old writ which directs the sheriff to inquire whether a man be an Idiot or not. The inquisition is to be made by a jury of twelve men. Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 232.

Engl. luw. This writ is probably obsolete, and superseded by the writ; of hubeas corpus. Tt was anciently directed to the sheriff, commanding him to inquire whether a prisoner char

See De plegiis acquietandis .

A writ which lay for a widow, against the executor of her deceased husband, to compel the executor to set off to her a third part of the decedent's personalty, after payment of his

The term “write” or “written” shall include printed, lithographed, or any means of graphic communication.

The term “write-in vote” means a vote cast for a person whose name does not appear on the official ballot by writing in the name of such person on such ballot or by any other metho

The term “writer” means any individual if the personal efforts of such individual create (or may reasonably be expected to create) a literary manuscript, musical composition (inclu

In England. An officer of the exchequer whose duty it was to write upon the tallies the letters of tellers' bills.

In Scotch law. Anciently, clerks in office of the secretary of state, by whom writs passing the king's signet were prepared. Their duty now is to prepare the warrants of all lands

In Scotch law. An officer nearly corresponding to an attorney at law, in English and American .practice. "Writers to the signet," called also "clerks to the signet," derive their n

The term “Write Your Own” means the cooperative undertaking between the insurance industry and the Federal Insurance Administration which allows participating property and casualty

letters," and insist that even if the general phrase " other publication " is allowed to apply to the word, the sending or mailing a letter by one person to *261 another is a suffi

A bond; an agreement reduced to writing, by which the party becomes bound to perform something, or suffer it to be done. A contract under seal. 7 Yerg. (Tenn.) 350.

the writ ne exeat would not be issued in a case of this sort where the defendant presently owes no debt to the complainant nor is under any fixed duty by reason of the receipt of m

In English practice, a chancery writ issued in aid of commissioners of sequestration, who were unable to obtain possession of the property. In early English practice, the writ had

A writ calculated to try the mere possessory title to an estate in real property. See 11 N. J. L. 262.

In English practice. A writ whereby certain persons (usually the clerk of assize and his subordinate officers) are directed to associate themselves with the justices and sergeants;

A writ employed to enforce obedience to an order or judgment of the court. It commands the sheriff to attach the disobedient party, and to have him before the court to answer his c

See Audita querela .

[the writ of certiorari] was used by this court as an auxiliary process only, to supply imperfections in the record of a case already before it; and not, like a writ of error, to r

The name of an ancient writ, now superseded by the more convenient remedy of an action on the case, which might have been sued against parties guilty of a conspiracy. Fitzh. Nat. B

A writ by which a cause which had been removed to the king's court was sent back to the ecclesiastical court.

In practice. A writ which lies where a party claims damages for breach of covenant, i. e., of a promise under seal.

In practice. A writ which lies where the party claims the recovery of a debt, i. e., a liquidated or certain sum of money alleged to be due to him. This is debt "in the debet," whi

The name of a writ which lies where one man has done anything in the name of another, by which the latter is damnified and deceived. Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 217. The modern practice is t

A writ of execution employed to enforce a judgment for the delivery of chattels. It commands the sheriff to cause the chattels mentioned in the writ to be returned to the person wh

In practice. A writ which lies where a party claims the specific recovery of goods and chattels, or deeds and writings, detained from him. This is seldom used. Trover is the more f

In practice. A writ which lies for a widow claiming the specific recovery of her dower, no part having been yet assigned to her. It is, usually called a writ of dower unde nihil ha

In practice. The name of a process issued by a party claiming land or other real estate, against one who is alleged to be unlawfully in possession. See "Ejectment." ant (or owner)

A real action to regain possession of land for a tenant who has been wrongfully dispossessed.

A writ for an owner who admitted a tenant to have gained a tortious freehold. See 3 Bl. Comm. 175.

A writ which lay for the reversioner, when the possession was withheld by the lessee or a stranger, after the determination of a lease for years. Brown.

In English law. An abolished writ given by statute of Marlbridge, 52 Hen. III. c. 30, which provided that when the number of alienations or descents exceeded the usual degrees, a n

A writ of error is a common law process, and removes for re-examination, nothing but the law.

The word 'damages' is here used, not as descriptive of the nature of the claim upon which the original judgment is founded, but as descriptive of the indemnity which the defendant

when a verdict and judgment upon it has been had in ejectment, on which nominal damages are only awarded, (except in cases between landlord and tenant…) and a writ of error has bee

In the case of courts of common law, the court at a subsequent term has power to correct inaccuracies in mere matters of form, or clerical errors, and, in civil cases, to rectify s

At common law a writ of error coram vobis brought before the court certain mistakes of fact not put in issue or passed upon, such as the death of a party, coverture, infancy, error

Writs of error to the State courts can only issue when one of the questions mentioned in the 25th section of that act was decided by the court to which the writ is directed, and in

it is not material whether the invalidity of the title was decreed in the Supreme Court of Arkansas upon a question of fact or of law. The fact that the title was rejected in that

The writ of error, in cases of common law, remains in force, and submits to the revision of the supreme court only the law. The remedy by appeal is confined to admiralty and equity

The difference between the two modes of securing a review, as contemplated by the statute, lies in the fact that a writ of error is granted as of right, while a writ of certiorari

When the error alleged does not appear on the face of the record, or on a demurrer, a bill of exceptions to the ruling of the court on questions of law, either in admitting or reje

See Execution .

See Exigent; Exigi Facias; Outlawry. WRIT OF F0RMED0N. This writ lies where a party claims the specific recovery of lands and tenements as issue in tail, or as remainder-man or rev

See Extent .

A writ which appears to be still in use to bring appeals to the English high court from inferior courts not of record proceeding according to the course of the common law. Archb. P

At common law, the writ of fieri facias had relation to its teste, though in fact issued subsequently, and bound the goods of the defendant from that date. The act of 29 Car. II. (

See Formedon .

This writ is also called a "writ of covenant," and is sued out by the party to whom lands are to be conveyed by fine, the foundation of whicb ls a supposed agreement or covenant th

See Garnishment .

the power conferred on a federal court to issue a writ of habeas corpus to inquire into the cause of the detention of any person asserting that he is being held in custody by the a

See Injunction .

The Court is also of opinion that the production of the note, on executing the writ of enquiry, was necessary. The default dispenses with the proof of the note, but not with its pr

A writ directed to the sheriff (either generally, when any man Is imprisoned for a bailable offence and ball has been refused, or specially, when the offence or cause of commitment

In English law. A writ directed to the sheriff (either generally, when any man is imprisoned for a bailable offense and bail has been refused, or specially, when the offense or cau

This writ is applicable only in the supervision of the proceedings of inferior courts, in cases where there is a legal right, without any existing legal remedy.

Same as Writ of mandamus.

In old English law. A writ which was so called by reason of the words used in the writ, namely, Unde idem A., qui medius est inter C. et praefatum B.; that is. A., who is mesne bet

A writ for a tenant who was distrained for duties or services which were not incumbent upon him.

The writ is a restraint upon the common right of movement from place to place within the United States and upon emigration.