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The bead money of the North American Indians.

In Scotch law. The wand which the messenger carries along with his blazon, in executing a caption, and with which he touches the prisoner. A sliding along this staff of a movable r

An ancient customary tenure of lands; i. e,, to drive deer to a stand, that the lord may have a shot. Blount, Ten. 140.

individual insertions under various headings; general, also called national, advertising typically comprises displays by national manufacturers or wholesale distributors of brand-n

Same as Ullage.

Absence of any consideration for a promise or an act.

the want of intrinsic fairness and honesty, in the connection in which the words are found, relates to some infirmity in the muniments of title, or deduction of title, of the defen

Failure of issue; childlessness.

when, from personal incapacity, the nature of the contract, or any other cause, a contract is incapable of being enforced against one party, that party is equally incapable of enfo

See Ordinary care .

The plaintiff must show that the defendant acted from malicious motives in prosecuting him, and that he had no sufficient reason to believe him to be guilty. If either of these be

Failure or neglect to pursue an action or proceeding.

Reckless; disregarding the rights of others; without reasonable excuse. See 14 Tex. App. 201. The act must be intentional, witjh design, and under circumstances evincing a reckless

An offence against public health, which under the stat. 24 & 25 Viet. c. 100, s. 56, is punishable as a misdemeanor by fine or imprisonment. In this country the offence is usually

With, a willful, wicked purpose. See 97 N. C. 465, 2 S. E. 445.

An act or omission by one conscious of his conduct, and, though having no intent to injure, conscious, from his knowledge of surrounding circumstances, that his conduct will natura

a licentious act of one man towards the person of another, without regard to his rights; it has also been defined as the conscious failure by one charged with a duty to exercise du

Alderman of a hundred or wapentake. Spelman.

A district in the northeastern counties of England corresponding to a hundred. See Hundred .

War, when duly declared or recognized as such by the war-making power, imports a prohibition to the subjects, or citizens, of all commercial intercourse and correspondence with cit

ARTICLES OF. See "Articles of War." WARACTUM (Law Lat.) In old English law. Fallow; fallow ground. Quando tenementum jacet incultum et ad waractum, when the tenement lies untilled,

“war activities” includes activities directly relating to military operations; / the term “war activities” includes activities directly relating to military operations; / The term

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

Warranty, which see.

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.

A warrantor.

As to federal legislation on this subject, see U. S. v. R. Co., 16.3 U. S. 244, 16 Sup. Ct. 993, 41 L. Ed. 145. The act of 1875, Feb. 18, provided that the court of claims should h

As used in this section the term “war crime” means any conduct— (1) defined as a grave breach in any of the international conventions signed at Geneva 12 August 1949, or any protoc

An infant placed by authority of law under the care of a guardian. While under the care of a guardian, a ward can make no contract whatever binding upon him, except for necessaries

police. To watch inthe day time, for the purpose of preventing violations of the law. It is the duty of all police officers and constables to keep ward in their respective district

A ward; a guard.

L. Lat. In old English law. Ward; guard; protection ; keeping; custody. Spelman. A ward; an infant under wardship. Id. In old Scotch law. An award ; the judgment of a court.

Money paid and contributed to watch and ward. Domesday.

vardare, 1. 1 In old Scots judgment.

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

A care-taker; a keeper; the superintendent of a prison.

Governor of the ports of England lying next France, with the authority of admiral, and power of sending out writs in his own name, etc. The constable of Dover Castle is the warden

(Saxon.) In old records. Ward fee; the value of a ward, or the money paid to the lord for his redemption from wardship. Blount.

In old Scotch law. Military tenure by which lands were held. It was so called from the yearly tax In commutation of the right to hold vassals' lands during minority. It was abolish

An infant who is under the superintendence of the chancellor.

In English law. A court kept in every ward in London, commonly called the "ward-mote court," or "inquest." Cowell.

A London ward court.

He is a 'ward of the admiralty,' often ignorant and helpless, and so in need of protection against himself as well as others.

The term “ward of the State” means a child who, as determined by the State where the child resides, is a foster child, is a ward of the State, or is in the custody of a public chil

In old English law. Money paid to the sheriff or cas-tellaiiis, for the duty of watching and warding a castle. Spelman.

In English law. The title qt a court of record established in the reign of Henry VIII. See "Court of Wards and Liveries." WARDA (Law Lat.) In Old English Law. Ward; guard; protecti

— ' — In English Law. The right of the lord over the person and estate of the tenant, when the latter was under a certain age. In Modern Law. The status of a ward (g. V.)

In English Law. The right of the lord over the person and estate of the tenant when the latter was under a certain age. Wardship was incident to a tenure by knight's service (see F

An Incident to the tenure of knight service.

In copyhold tenure the lord was guardian of infant heirs. See 2 Bl. Comm. 67.

The lord is guardian of his infant tenant by special custom.

[S]eamen who are peculiarly the wards of admiralty. [The Jones Act's] purpose was to enlarge that protection, not to narrow it.

Seamen have always been regarded as wards of the admiralty, and their rights, wrongs, and injuries a special subject of the admiralty jurisdiction

In old records. A constable's or watchman's staff. Co-well.

WARDWYTE, or WARDwlte. In old English law. Immunity or exemption from the duty or service of ward, or from contributing to such service. Spelman. Exemption from amercement for not

The being quit of giving money for the keeping of wards. Spelman.

I. Jr. In old English law.

To plough up land de-.signed for wheat in the spring, in order to let it lie fallow for better improvement, which in Kent is called "summer land."

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

The term “warehouse” means a structure or other approved storage facility, as determined by the Secretary, in which any agricultural product may be stored or handled for the purpos

A book used by merchants to contain an account of the quantities of goods received, shipped, and remaining in stock.

A person who receives goods and merchandise to be stored in his warehouse for hire.

As it is the duty of the warehouseman to deliver upon proper demand, his failure to do so, without excuse, has been regarded as making a prima facie case of negligence. If, however

His right to retain possession of another’s goods, stored with him, until the satisfaction of some charge imposed upon them. See 42 Am. Dec. 257.

The term “warehouse operator” means a person that is lawfully engaged in the business of storing or handling agricultural products.

A receipt by a order to obtali. the propefrty. By custom of trade it has come to be virtually negoti~ able in many instances. Grain, provisions, and many other staple commodities a

A system of public stores or warehouses, established or authorized by law, called "bonded warehouses," in which an importer may deposit goods imported, in the custody of the revenu

A warren.

Lat. In old English law. To warrant; to save one harmless. Spelman.

I, I. In old English law. less.

(L. Lat.) In old European law. an outcast; an exile; a banished person.

Congress had in mind real shooting wars when it referred to participation in war in any form—actual military conflicts between nations of the earth in our time—wars with bombs and

The term “warm air furnace” means a self-contained oil- or gas-fired furnace designed to supply heated air through ducts to spaces that require it and includes combination warm air

The words “war material” include arms, armament, ammunition, livestock, forage, forest products and standing timber, stores of clothing, air, water, food, foodstuffs, fuel, supplie

In old English probate practice. A notice to one who had entered a caveat to appear and set forth his interest. Sweet.

In old records. Garniture ; furniture; provision. Cowell.

In old English law. An ancient custom, whereby, if any tenant holding of the Castle of Dover failed in paying his rent at the day, he should forfeit double and for the second failu

In England. A term applied to the Department of State for War.

A rope attached to some fixed point, used for moving a ship. Pub. St. Mass. 1882, p. 1297.

From its very nature the war power, when necessity calls for its exercise, tolerates no qualifications or limitations, unless found in the Constitution or in applicable principles

authority to prepare defenses and to establish our military forces in defensive posture about the world.

The words “war premises” include all buildings, grounds, mines, or other places wherein such war material is being produced, manufactured, repaired, stored, mined, extracted, distr

In Scotch law. A clause in a charter of heritable rights, by which the grantor obliges himself that the right conveyed shall be effectual to the receiver. It is either personal or

an instrument conferring authority upon persons, inferior to a commission," and that mates must therefore be warrant officers, because they are appointed by the Secretary of the Na

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

SEARCH. Vide Search Warrant.

affidavits for search warrants, such as the one involved here, must be tested and interpreted by magistrates and courts in a commonsense and realistic fashion. They are normally dr

By the common law of this state, a warrant and survey, if the consideration be paid, is considered a legal title against the proprietary, as much so as if he had a patent.

See Creditor.

I. Warranty. Warrantia diei: v. De.

One to whom a warranty is made. Shep. Touch. 181.

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

In old practice. Warranty of charter. A writ which lay for one who, being ehfeoffed of lands or tenements, with a clause of warranty, was afterwards impleaded in an assize or other

An ancient and now obsolete writ, which was issued when a man was enfeoffed of land with warranty, and then he was sued or impleaded in assize or other action, in which he could no

An old English writ, which lay for him who was challenged to be a ward to another, in respect to land said to be holden by knight-service; which land, when it was bought by the anc

A writ under which the plaintiff contested a lord’s right to guardianship in chivalry of the heir’s lands where the land had been warranted free thereof.

See De warrantia Diei .

An order i directing the marshal to take possession of the bankrupt’s property and notify his creditors.