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  • VRAIC
    Seaweed. It is used in great quantities by the inhabitants of Jersey and Guernsey for manure, and also for fuel by the poorer classes.
  • VULGARIS PURGATTO
    [Latin] old English law. Common purgation; a name given to the trial by ordeal, to distinguish it from the canonical purgation, which was by the oath of the party. 4 Bl. Comm. 342.
  • VULGO CONCEPTI
    [Latin] In the civil law. Spurious children; bastards.
  • VULGO QUASITI
    (Latin) In the civil law. Spurious children; literally, gotten from the people; the offspring of promiscuous cohabitation, who are considered as having no father. Inst. 3, 4, 3; Id. 3, 5, 4.
  • W.
    As an abbreviation, this letter frequently stands for "William," (king of England,) "Westminster," "west," or "western."
  • W.D.
    An abbreviation for "Western District."
  • WACREOUR
    Pr. A vagabond, or vagrant Britt. c. 29.
  • WADSET
    In Scotch law. The old term for a mortgage. A right by which lands or other heritable subjects are impignorated by the proprietor to his creditor in security of his debt Wadsets are usually drawn, in the form of mutual contracts, in which one partly sells the land, and the More...
  • WADSETTER
    In Scotch law. A creditor to whom a wadset is made, corresponding to a mortgagee.
  • WAFTORS
    Conductors of vessels at sea. Cowell.
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