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  • WHITE ACRE
    A fictitious name given to a piece of land, in the English books, for purposes of illustration.
  • WHITE BONNET
    In Scotch law. A fictitious offerer or bidder at a roup or auction sale. Bell.
  • WHITE MEATS
    In old English law. Milk, butter, cheese, eggs, and any composition of them. Cowell.
  • WHITE RENTS
    In English law. Rents paid in silver, and called "white rents," or "redditus albi," to distinguish them from rents payable in corn, labor, provisions, etc., called "black-rent" or "black-mail"
  • WHITE SPURS
    A kind of enquires. Cowell.
  • WHTTEFRIARS
    A place in London be-tween the Temple and Blackfrlars, which was formerly a sanctuary, and therefore privileged from arrest Wharton.
  • WHITEHART SILVER
    A mulct on certain lands in or near to the forest of Whitehart paid into the exchequer, imposed by Henry III. upon Thomas de la Linda, for silling a beautiful white hart which that king before had spared in hunting. Camd. Brit 150.
  • WHITSUN FARTHINGS
    Pentecostals, (ff. v.)
  • WHITSUNTIDE
    The feast of Pentecost being the fiftieth day after Easter, and the first of the four cross-quarter days of the year. Wharton.
  • WHTTTANWARII
    In old English law. A class of offenders who whitened stolen ox-hides and horse-hides so that they could not be known and identified.
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