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A mark indicating the highest point to which water rises or the lowest point to which It sinks. —High-water mark. This term is properly applicable only to 'tidal waters, and design

See that title infra. -Water-measure. In old statutes. A measure greater than Winchester measure by about three gallons in the bushel. Cowell.

A greater measure than the Winchester, formerly used for selling coals in the pool, etc. 22 Car. II. c. 11. which was of two kinds, — by hot water and by cold water. The hot-water

The term “watermelon” means all varieties of watermelon grown by producers in the United States or imported into the United States.

Whereby if the suspect sank in a pool of water into which he was cast, he was acquitted, but if he floated without swimming, he was deemed guilty. See, also, Hot-water ordeal.

The term "water power" refers to hydropower, including conduit power, pumped storage, and marine energy technologies.

For the purposes of this chapter the term “water quality standards” includes thermal water quality standards.

A tax for water supply. See 111 N. C. 15, 20 L. R. A. 743, 16 S. E. 857.

The term “water reclamation and reuse project” means a project carried out by the Secretary and an eligible entity in the North San Pablo Bay watershed relating to— (A) water quali

The term "water resilience" means the capacity of a military installation to mitigate, respond, or adapt to changes in water availability due to manmade or natural phenom

As used in this paragraph, the term “water resource facility” means irrigation and pumping facilities, reservoirs, water conservation works, aqueducts, canals, ditches, pipelines,

In this section, the term "water resources development project" means a project recommendation that results from— (1) a feasibility report, as such term is defined in sec

In this section, the term “water resources project constructed by the Secretary” includes a water resources project constructed or funded jointly by the Secretary and the head of a

The term “water resources projects to be constructed in the future” includes all projects not yet actually under construction, and, to the extent of work remaining to be completed,

The legal right to the use of water. See o Cal. 445, 63 Am. Dec. 140. See, also, Accrued water rights.

the right to the use of water can be acquired only by prior appropriation for a beneficial use; and that such right when thus obtained is a property right, which, when acquired for

The declaration in the Constitution of 1879 that water appropriated for sale is appropriated to a public use must be taken according to its subject-matter. The use is not by the pu

water `[a]s found in streams and bodies forming geographical features such as oceans, rivers, [and] lakes,'" "ante," at 732 (quoting Webster's Second 2882)—the dissent is correct t

An. aqueduct or passage for water. WATLING (orWETLlNG) STREET. One of the four great Roman ways or roads in Britain. Cowell; Blount; LL. Gul. Conq. lib. 30; Fleta, lib. 2, c. 61, §

The term “waters covered under this chapter” means the navigable waters of the United States and the waters superjacent to the Outer Continental Shelf as defined in section 1331 of

The term "watershed group" means a self-sustaining, cooperative watershed-wide group that— (A) is comprised of representatives of the affected stakeholders of the relevan

The term "watershed management project" means any project (including a demonstration project) that— (A) enhances water conservation, including alternative water uses; (B)

The term “waters of a foreign nation” means any part of the territorial sea or exclusive economic zone (or the equivalent) of a foreign nation, to the extent such territorial sea o

storm drains, roadside ditches, ripples of sand in the desert that may contain water once a year, and lands that are covered by floodwaters once every 100 years.

The term "water source management plan" means the water source management plan developed under subsection (d)(1).

The term “waters under the jurisdiction of the United States” means— (A) the territorial sea of the United States; (B) the waters included within a zone, contiguous to the territor

The term “water supply system” means a system for the provision to the public of piped water for human consumption if such system has at least 15 service connections or regularly s

The term “Water System Land” means the federally-owned land located within the Santa Fe National Forest to be conveyed to the County under the Los Alamos Agreement.

For purposes of subparagraph (A), the term “water treatment works facility” means any treatment works within the meaning of section 212(2) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Ac

The term “water use” means a use, activity, or project conducted in or on waters within the coastal zone. / The term “water use” means the quantity of water flowing through a showe

The term “water utility property” means property— (A) which is an integral part of the gathering, treatment, or commercial distribution of water, and which, without regard to this

A people, or aggregation of men, existing in the form of an organized jural society, inhabiting a distinet portion of the earth, speaking the same language, using the same customs,

A bank incorpotated and doing business under the laws of the United States, as distinguished from a siate bank, which derives its powers from the authority of a particular state.

LAW OF. See INTERNA=- TIONAL Law.

A servant born, Spelman. Natura appetit perfectum; itu et lex. Nature covets perfection; so does law also. Hob. 144.

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

The freight of passengers in aship. Johnson; Webster.

In the civil law. The freight or fare paid for the transportation of cargo or passengers over the sea in a vessel. This is a Latinized form of a Greek word.

Such goods as appear upon the waves after shipwreck, Jacob.

Bills drawn by officers ‘of the English navy for their pay, ete.

A pecuniary allowance made in consideration of past services of some one in the navy.

The chief maglatrate of Ripon, in Yorkshire.

Duty anciently paid twice a year towards the charge of wax candles in churches. Spelman.

A passage, street, or road. In its most general sense, it includes both public highways and private ways (Co. Litt. 56a; but it is generally used as sy-

estates, a passage, street or road. A right of way is a privilege which an individual, or a particular description of persons such as the inhabitants of a particular place, or the

A writing in which are set down the names of passengers who are carried in a public conveyance, or the description of goods sent with a common carrier by land. When the goods are c

A way created by the gift of the owner and an acceptance by the public authorities. See 128 Mass. 63.

One established by adverse, continuous and public use for 20 years or more. See 108 Cal. 589, 41 Pac. 448.

A right of passing in a particular line. See 22 Mass. 485, 16 Am. Dec. 415.

A way which is necessarily incident to a grant and without which the grant would be useless. 194 111. 250. It arises by implication where the only manner of enjoying the benefit of

In Pennsylvania. By the custom of the country, a tenant for a term certain is entitled, after the expiration of his lease, to enter and take away the crop of grain which he had put

One which is not attached to a dominant estate. See 226 HI. 590, 117 Am. St. Rep. 261, 11 L. R. A. (N. S.) 457, 80 N. E. 1071.

A right of way over or through land for the carriage of minerals from a mine or quarry. It is an easement ((?. v.), being a species of the class called "rights of way," and is gene

Implements of husbandry. 1 Reeve, Hist, Eng. Law, c, 5, 268.

An easement founded on a grant; a right of way over the grantor’s land in favor of the grantee implied by law when a grantor sells land entirely surrounded by his own, or partly by

A way newly created by a reservation by the grantor. See 42 Minn. 398, 54 N. W. 958.

In legislative assemblies, there is usually appointed a committee whose duties are to inquire into and propose to the house the ways and means to be adopted to raise funds for the

I. I In old English waif.

An English name for a sort of overseer of highways. Waywardens are elected under the highway acts of 1862 and 1864 (Stats. 25 & 26 Vict. ch. 61, and 27 & 28 Vict. ch. 101), in any

The English highway acts provide that in every parish forming part of a highway district there shall annually be elected one or more waywardens. The waywardens so elected, and the

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

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

An abbreviation for "Western District."

A wood.

The robbing of a dead man in his grave.

All material objects, capable of satisfying human wants, desires or tastes, having a value in exchange, and upon which human labor has been expended; i. e., which haye, by such lab

a "receiver or frame." Section 921 supports this reading by delimiting the defnition of a "frearm" to "any weapon" convertible into a 508 BONDI v. VANDERSTOK Thomas, J., dissenting

The term “weaponization” means incorporation into usable ordnance or other militarily useful means of delivery. / The term “weaponize” or “weaponization” means to incorporate into,

The term “weaponize” or “weaponization” means to incorporate into, or the incorporation into, usable ordnance or other militarily useful means of delivery.

The term “weapon of mass destruction” has the meaning given the term in section 1801 of title 50 . / The term “weapon of mass destruction” has the meaning given that term in sectio

the term “weapon production facility of the Department of Energy” means a facility under the control or jurisdiction of the Secretary of Energy that is operated for national securi

The term “weapons activities” means each activity within the budget category of weapons activities in the budget of the Administration.

The term “weapons activities funds” means funds appropriated to the Department of Energy pursuant to an authorization for carrying out weapons activities necessary for national sec

“weapons of mass destruction” has the meaning provided by section 2302(1) of title 50 ; and / The terms “weapons of mass destruction” and “WMD” mean chemical, biological, and nucle

Definition.—In this section, the term “Weapons of Mass Destruction Civil Support Team” means a team of members of the reserve components of the armed forces that is established und

The term “weapons of mass destruction information” means information that could reasonably be expected to assist in the development, proliferation, or use of a weapon of mass destr

“weapons of mass destruction program” means a program or plan for the development, acquisition, or production of any weapon or weapons of mass destruction (as defined in section 23

The term “weapons-related activities” means each activity under the Department of Energy that involves nuclear weapons, nuclear weapons technology, or fissile or radioactive materi

The term “weapon system” means items that can be used directly by the armed forces to carry out combat missions and that cost more than $100,000 or for which the eventual total pro

In this subchapter, the term "weapon system component" has the meaning given the term "major system component" in section 2446a of this title. / In this subchap

Same as Weir.

In a lease, means any injury arising without the fault of the tenant. See 13 Ann. Cas. 96, note.

garments worn or made for wearing; dress in general;' and the noun 'wearing,' as 'that which one wears; clothes; garments.' But it is unnecessary to search or compare the dictionar

A great dam or fence made across a river or against water, formed of stakes interlaced by twigs of osier, and accommodated for the taking of fish or to convey a stream to a mill. C

Its bulletins are not notice of rain, so as to make it negligent to unload goods on an open wharf; but the master of a ship is bound to take notice of information from the weather

The term “weather enterprise” has the meaning given that term in section 8501 of this title .

The term "weatherization materials" means— (A) caulking and weatherstripping of doors and windows; (B) furnace efficiency modifications, including, but not limited to— (i

The term “weatherized warm air furnace or boiler” means a furnace or boiler designed for installation outdoors, approved for resistance to wind, rain, and snow, and supplied with i

The term “weather modification” means any activity performed with the intention of producing artificial changes in the composition, behavior, or dynamics of the atmosphere.

the term “webcaster” means a person or entity that has obtained a compulsory license under section 112 or 114 and the implementing regulations therefor.

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

the term "Website" means the website established and maintained under subsection (b). / the term “website” means any collection of material placed in a computer server-ba

The term “website or online service directed to children” means— (i) a commercial website or online service that is targeted to children; or (ii) that portion of a commercial websi

' 2 Greenl. Ev. §§ 150-51; 1 id. § 88; 1 Whart. Ev. § 608; 2 id. § 1298; 1 Bl. Com. 457. * Tioga County v. South Creek Township, 75 Pa. 430- 37 (1874); Boykin v. Boykm, 70 N. C. 26

See Homicide; Mauce, Aforethought.

" A yeman [young man] hadde he, and servauntz no moo,"

the state of entire subjection of one person to the will of another,' and a slave is said to be 'a person who is held in bondage to another.' Even the secondary meaning given recog

In con- = atruing a will, necessary implication means not natural necessity, but so strong a probability of intention that an intention contrary to that which is imputed to the tes

A covenant or agreement; whence a wedded husband. WEDBEDRIP (Sanson). In old English law. A customary service which tenants paid to their lords, in cutting down their corn, or doin