Scotch law. A right, by which lands, or other heritable subjects, are impignorated by the proprietor to his creditor in security of his debt, and, lik...
Scotch law. A creditor to whom a wadset is made.TO WAGE, contracts. To give a pledge or security for the performance of anything, as to wage or gage d...
A superstitious mode of trial which till lately disgraced the English law.2. The last case of this kind was commenced in the year 1817, but not procce...
Engl. law. When an action of debt is brought against a man upon a simple contract, and the defendant pleads nil debit, and concludes his plea with thi...
contracts. One made when the insured has no insurable interest.2. It has nothing in common with insurance but the name and form. It is usually in such...
A wager is a bet a contract by which two parties or more agree that a certain sum of money, or other thing, shall be paid or delivered to one of them,...
contract. A compensation given to a hired person for his or her services. As to servants wages, see Chitty, Contr. 171 as to sailors wages, Abbott on ...
Stolen goods waived or scattered by a thief in his flight in order to effect his escape.2. Such goods by the English common law belong to the king. 1 ...
A term applied to a woman as outlaw is applied to a man. A man is an outlaw, a woman is a waive. T. L., Crabbs Tech. Dict. h. t....
The relinquishment or refusal to accept of a right.2. In practice it is required of every one to take advantage of his rights at a proper time and, ne...
Scotch law. The revival of an action.2. An action is said to sleep, when it lies over, not insisted on for a year in which case it is suspended. 4, t....
A building or erection so well known as to need no definition. In general a man may build a wall on any part of his estate, to any height he may deem ...
crim. law. A licentious act by one man towards the person of another without regard to his rights, as, for example, if a man should attempt to pull of...
An ancient word used in England as synonymous with hundred. (q. v.) Fortesc. De Laud. ch. 24....
A contention by force, or the art of paralysing the forces of an enemy.2. It is either public or private. It is not intended here to speak of the latt...
domestic relations. An infant placed by authority of law under the care of a guardian.2. While under the care of a guardian a ward can make no contrac...
a district. Most cities are divided for various purposes into districts, each of which is called a ward....
police. To watch in the day time, for the purpose of preventing violations of the law.2. It is the duty of all police officers and constables to keep ...
An infant who is under the superintendence of the chancellor....
A guardian, a keeper. This is the name given to various officers: as, the warden of the prison, the wardens of the port of Philadelphia, church warden...
Eng. law. Wardship was the right of the lord over the person and estate of the tenant, when the latter was under a certain age. When a tenant by knigh...
all be subject to quarantine or other re-straint, pursuant to the health laws of any state, at such convenient place or places as the safety of the re...
A warehouseman is a person who receives goods and merchandise to be stored in his warehouse for hire.2. He is bound to use ordinary care in preserving...
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...
crim. law, Practice. A writ issued by a justice of the peace or other authorized officer, directed to a constable or other proper person, requiring hi...
practice. An instrument in writing, addressed to one or more attorneys therein named, authorizing them generally to appear in any court, or in some sp...
One to whom a warranty is made. Touchst. 181....
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 othe...
One who makes a warranty. Touchst, 181....
has always been held to sound in damages which after judgment may be recovered out of the personal or real estate, as in other cases. Vide 4 Kent, Com...
practice. A warranty is a contract real, annexed to lands and tenements, whereby a man is bound to defend such lands and tenements from another person...
down without waste, is a question of fact for the jury under the direction of the court. 7 Johns. R. 227. The tenant may cut down trees for the repara...
com. law. A book used among merchants. All the dealings of the merchant are recorded in this book in chronological order as they occur....
police. To watch is, properly speaking, to stand sentry and attend guard during the night time: certain officers called watchmen are appointed in most...
A phrase used in the English law, to denote the superinten-dence and care of certain officers, whose duties are to protect the public from harm....
An officer in many cities and towns, whose duty it is to watch during the night and take care of the property of the inhabitants.2. He possesses gener...
That liquid substance of which the sea, the rivers, and creeks are composed.2. A pool of water, or a stream or water course, is considered as part of ...
English law. An officer appointed to search ships in ports. 10 H. vii., 30....
operty in the water itself, but a simple usufruct as it passes along. Agua currit et debet currere, is the language of the law. 3 Rawle, Rep. 84, 9 Co...
An ancient form of trial, now abolished, by which the accused, tied band and foot, were cast into cold water, and if they did not sink they were deeme...
This name is given to such goods as after shipwreck appear upon the waves. Jacob, Law Dict. h. t....
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 ...
contracts. A writing in which is set down the names of passengers, who are carried in a public conveyance, or the description of goods sent with a com...
In Pennsylvania, by the custom of the, country, a tenant for a term certain is entitled after the expiration of his Iease, to enter and take away the ...
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 ...
A great dam made across a river, accommodated for the taking of fish, or to convey a stream to a mill. Jacobs Law Dict. h. t. Vide Dam....
A covenant or agreement, whence a wedded husband.WEEK. Seven days of time.2. The week commences immediately after twelve oclock, on the night between ...
mer. law. In the English law it is a duty or toll paid for weighing merchandise, it is called tronage, (q. v.) for weighing wool at the kings beam, or...
diamonds. Troy weight is also used by apo-thecaries in compounding medicines, and by them the ounce is divided into eight drams, and the drain into th...
This phrase is used to signify that the proof on one side, of a cause is greater than on the other.2. When a verdict has been rendered against the wei...
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