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  • WELL KNOWING
    A phrase used in pleading as the technical expression in laying a scienter, (q. v.)
  • WELSH MORTGAGE
    See MORTGAGE.
  • WEND
    In old records. A large extent of ground, comprising several juga; a peram-bulation; a circuit. Spelman; Cowell.
  • WERA, OR WERE
    The estimation or price of a man, especially of one slain. In the criminal law of the Anglo-Saxons, every man's life had its value, called a "were," or "capitis esttmetio."
  • WEREGELT THEF
    Sax. In old English law. A robber who might be ransomed ' Fleta, lib. 1, c. 47, § 13.
  • WEREGILD, OR WERGILD
    This was the price of homicide, or other atrocious personal 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 the next of kin of the injured person. In the Anglo-Saxon laws, the amount of More...
  • WERELADA
    A purging from a crime by the oaths of several persons, according to the degree and quality of the accused. Cowell.
  • WERGELT
    In old Scotch law. A sum paid by an offender as a compensation or satisfaction for the offense; a weregild, or wergild.
  • WERP-GELD
    Belg. In European law. Contribution for jettison; average.
  • WESTMINSTER
    A city immediately adjoining London, and forming a part of the metropolis; formerly the seat of the superior courts of the kingdom.
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