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any day of the week other than Sundays or whole holidays, and the word 'holiday' refers to a holiday of not less than 24 hours.

The term “week of unemployment” means a week of total, part-total, or partial unemployment as determined under the applicable State law or Federal unemployment insurance law.

Omission; failure to do something that one is bound to do; carelessness. The term is used in the law of bailment as synonymous with “negligence,” But the latter word is the closer

In old European law. The judicial combat or duel; the trial by battel.

In English law. A duty or toll paid for weighing merchandise. It is called "tronage" for weighing wool at the king's beam, or "pesage" for weighing other avoirdupois goods. 2 Chit.

See Police, 2, Public; Utere, Sic utere, etc. Weightoorhood. See Country; Vicinity.

“Weigher” means any person employed, licensed, or authorized by the Secretary to weigh and certify the weight of tobacco.

A quality in natural bodies by which they tend towards the centre of the earth. Under the police power, weights and measures may be established and dealers compelled to conform to

The term “weighted average price” means, with respect to a covered drug and a period of time (as determined by the Secretary) an amount equal to— (A) the sum of the products of the

The general rule that either two witnesses or one witness with probable circumstances will be required to outweigh an answer asserting a fact responsively to a bill, is admitted. T

Its effect in inducing belief. See 179 Pa. 47, 36 Atl. 155.

a determination [by] the trier of fact that a greater amount of credible evidence supports one side of an issue or cause than the other.

“weight of the overload” means the amount obtained by multiplying the number of inches that the vessel is submerged below the applicable assigned freeboard by the tons-an-inch imme

See "Auncel Weight"

See "Wear."

English law, contracts, is a species of security which partakes of the nature of a mortgage, as there is a debt due, and an estate is given as a security for the repayment, but dif

Well-going, well-being; prosperity in its most comprehensive sense. " We the People of the United States, in Order to. promote the general Welfare.. do ordain and establish this Co

The term “welfare benefit” means any benefit other than a benefit with respect to which— (A) section 83(h) applies, (B) section 404 applies (determined without regard to section 40

The term “welfare benefit fund” means any fund— (A) which is part of a plan of an employer, and (B) through which the employer provides welfare benefits to employees or their benef

Such benefits are a matter of statutory entitlement for persons qualified to receive them. Their termination involves state action that adjudicates important rights. The constituti

See Constitution of the United States.

The terms “employee welfare benefit plan” and “welfare plan” mean any plan, fund, or program which was heretofore or is hereafter established or maintained by an employer or by an

plans providing benefits in the event of sickness, accident, [or] disability.

Welfare recipient.—The term "welfare recipient" means an individual who has received assistance under a State or tribal program funded under part A of title IV of the Soc

In this section, the term “welfare reform effective date” means the effective date, with respect to a State, of title I of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconcil

The term “well” means any well for the discovery or production of natural gas, crude oil, or both.

Well advertised' means well known.

In a bond, the words include both honesty and reasonable skill and diligence. See 1 Pet (U. S.) 46, 7 L. Ed. 47.

not only honesty, but reasonable skill and diligence.

A tribunal in New x Amsterdam (New York). 1 Fiske, Dutch and Quaker Colonies 238.

the terms “agent institution”, “reciprocal deposits”, and “well capitalized” have the meanings given those terms in subsection (i); and / The term “well capitalized” has the meanin

As used in this section, the term “wellhead protection area” means the surface and subsurface area surrounding a water well or wellfield, supplying a public water system, through w

The technical words to plead scienter.

The term “well managed” means— (A) in the case of any company or depository institution which receives examinations, the achievement of— (i) a CAMEL composite rating of 1 or 2 (or

It has become firmly settled that whether a case is one arising under the Constitution or a law or treaty of the United States, in the sense of the jurisdictional statute, must be

they also contained typical and representative averages.

The term “well-rounded education” means courses, activities, and programming in subjects such as English, reading or language arts, writing, science, technology, engineering, mathe

Receiving a sura of money or valuable thing, undertaking to return the same or the value thereof together with other money, if an event (for example, the result of a horse-race) sh

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

In English law. A species of security which partakes of the nature of a mortgage, as there is a debt due, and an estate is given as a security for the repayment, but differs from i

A certain quantity or circuit of land. Cowell,

The price of a man; the price to be paid the relatives of a decedent for killing him.

Sav. In old English law. A robber who might be ransomed. Fleta, llb. 1, c. 47, § 13.

wergild, weregelt, were.

This was the price of homicide or other atrocious per-senal offense, paid partly to the king for the loss of a subject, partly to the lord for the loss of a vassal, and partly to t

The sum or price paid for killing a man, part of which went to the king and part to the near relatives. See 4 Bl. Comm. 188, 313, 413.

A purging from a crime by the oaths of several persons, according to ■ the degree and quality of the accused. Cowell.

In old Scotch law. A sum paid by an offendor as a compensation or satisfaction for the offense; a we'regild, or wergild.

or WEREGILD. In old English law. The price which, in a barbarous age, a person guilty of homicide or other enormous offense was required to pay, instead of receiving other punishme

Belg. In European law. Contribution for jettison; average,

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.

In practice. A commission issued out of $he court in which an action is pending, to direct the taking of the depositions of witnesses who are beyond the territorial jurisdiction of

The term “West Basin Strip” means a strip of land along the West Basin which the Wampanoag Tribal Council is authorized to convey, under paragraph (11) of the Settlement Agreement,

its northwest corner, where its west line meets New York Avenue, and if by " west " is meant due west, then a line running due west from Fourteenth Street will not strike the west

The term "Western Alaska Captain of the Port Zone" means the area described in section 3.85–15(a) of title 33, Code of Federal Regulations (as in effect on December 23, 2

Western alaska oil spill planning criteria.—The term "Western Alaska oil spill planning criteria" means the criteria required to be established under paragraph (9) of sec

The terms “WCPFC Convention” and “Western and Central Pacific Convention” means the Convention on the Conservation and Management of the Highly Migratory Fish Stocks in the Western

The term “Western Balkans” means the region comprised of the following countries: (A) The Republic of Albania. (B) Bosnia and Herzegovina. (C) The Republic of Kosovo. (D) Montenegr

The term “Western Balkans country” means any country listed in subparagraphs (A) through (F) of paragraph (3).

The terms “Western Hemisphere countries”, “countries in the Western Hemisphere”, and “Western Hemisphere” mean Canada, the United States, Mexico, countries located in South America

The terms “Western Hemisphere countries”, “countries in the Western Hemisphere”, and “Western Hemisphere” mean Canada, the United States, Mexico, countries located in South America

See Ohio. WESTMINSTER 2nd, STATUTE OF. A statute of 13 Edw. I. c\ 24 (1285), under which it was provided that where in one case a writ was found and in a like case no writ was to b

“Western Rivers” means the Mississippi River, its tributaries, South Pass, and Southwest Pass, to the navigational demarcation lines dividing the high seas from harbors, rivers, an

In this section, the term "Western States" means the States of Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota,

“Western United States” means those States lying wholly or in part west of the Continental Divide; and

Up to 1180, the court of common pleas followed the king's household from one end of the kingdom to the other. For the convenience of suitors, Magna Charta provided that the court s

A city by express creation of Henry VIII. It was dissolved as a see and restored to the bishopric of London by Edward VI. and turned into a collegiate church, subject to a dean, by

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

A document containing a statement of religious doctrine, concocted at a conference of British and continental Protestant divines at Westminster, in the year 1648, which subsequentl

St. 3 Edw. I., A. D. 1275. This statute, which deserves the name of a code rather than an act, is divided into fifty-one chapters. Without extending the exemption of churchmen from

St. 13 Edw. I. St. 1, A. D. 1285, otherwise called the Statute de Bonis Conditionalibus. See "De Donis, the Statute." See 2 Reeve, Hist. Eng. Law, c. 10, p. 163. Certain parts of t

St. 18 Edw. I. St. 1, A. D. 1290. Otherwise called the Statute Quia Emptores. See "Quia Emptores."

The law of the West Saxons, which was observed in the counties in the south and west of England, from Kent to Devonshire, in the beginning of the eleventh century. Supposed by Blac

The name of one of the United States of America. This state was formed in 1861 of the western counties of Virginia, owing to their non-concurrence in the ordinance of secession pas

The term “Wetbed Lands” means those Riverbed lands which lie below the mean high water mark of the Arkansas River in the State of Oklahoma as of December 13, 2002, exclusive of the

A castrated ram.

The terms “highly erodible land” and “wetland” have the meanings, respectively, that such terms are given in section 3801 of title 16 . / The term “wetland”, except when such term

The term "wetland reserve easement" means a reserved interest in eligible land that— (A) is defined and delineated in a deed; and (B) stipulates— (i) the rights, title, a

those areas that are inundated or saturated by surface or ground water at a frequency and duration sufficient to support, and that under normal circumstances do support, a prevalen

The term “wetlands conservation project” means— (A) the obtaining of a real property interest in lands or waters, including water rights, of a wetland ecosystem and associated habi

The weight of an artic's or collection of articles, after deducting from the gross weight the weight of the boxes, coverings, casks, etc., containing the same. The weight of an ani

A local court of New York having original jurisdiction of civil causes, where the action is for personal injuries or defamation, ani of other civil actions where the damages claime

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

A royal fish, the head being the king's property, and the tail the queen's. 2 Steph. Comm. 19, 448, 540.

Whale catcher: The words “whale catcher” mean a vessel used for the purpose of hunting, killing, taking, towing, holding onto, or scouting for whales.

Whale products: The words “whale products” mean any unprocessed part of a whale and blubber, meat, bones, whale oil, sperm oil, spermaceti, meal, and baleen.

A whaling ship.

Whaling: The word “whaling” means the scouting for, hunting, killing, taking, towing, holding onto, and flensing of whales, and the possession, treatment, or processing of whales o

For purposes of subparagraph (A), the term “whaling expenses” includes expenses for— (i) the acquisition and maintenance of whaling boats, weapons, and gear used in sanctioned whal

A space of ground artificially prepared for the reception of merchandise from a ship or vessel, so as to promote the convenient loading and discharging of such vessel. A structure

The money paid for landing goods upon, or loading them from, a wharf. Dane, Abr, Index; 4 Cal. 41, 45.

One who owns or keeps a wharf for the purpose of receiving and shipping merchandise to or from it for hire.

J. J. S. The law lexicon, forming an epitome of the law of Iingland, and containing full explanations of the technical terms and purases thereof, both ancientand modern, Ist

J.¢.5. Same. 7th Edn,™ J.M. Lely. lvol. 8vo. London, 18. ——,Same. Ist Ainerican from Ist inglish Edn. lvol. 8vo, Philadeiphia, i854.

The term “wheat” means all classes of wheat grains grown in the United States.

The term “wheat producer” means any person who grows wheat within the United States for market.

The punishment of the wheel was formerly to tie a criminal on a wheel, and then to break his bones until he expired. This barbarous punishment was never used in the United States,

Duty or toll paid for carts, etc., passing over certain ground. Cowell.

The term “wheelchair” means a mobility aid, usable indoors, and designed for and used by individuals with mobility impairments, whether operated manually or motorized.