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  • WAINAGIUM
    What is necessary to the farmer for the cultivation of his land. Barring. Ob. St. 12.
  • WAITING CLERKS
    Officers whose duty it formerly was to wait in attendance upon the court of chancery. The office was abolished in 1842 by St 5 & 6 Vict. c. 103. Mozley & Whitley.
  • WAIVE
    v. To abandon or throw away; as when a thief, in his flight, throws aside the stolen goods, In order to facilitate his escape, he is technically said to waive them. In modern law, to renounce, repudiate, or surrender a claim, a privilege, a right, or the opitoftunlty to take More...
  • WAIVE
    n. A woman outlawed. The term is. as it were, the feminine of "outlaw," the latter being always applied to a man; "waive," to a woman. Cowell.
  • WAKEMAN
    The chief magistrate of Ripon, In Yorkshire.
  • WAKENING
    In Scotch law. The revival of an action. A process by which an action that has lain over and not been insisted in for a year and a day, and thus technically said to have "fallen asleep," is wakened, or put in motion again. 1 Forb. Inst, pt. 4, p. More...
  • WALAPAUZ
    In old Lombardlc law. The disguising the head or face, with the intent of committing a theft.
  • WALENSIS
    In old English law. A Welshman.
  • WALESCHERY
    The being a Welsh¬man. Spelman.
  • WALISCUS
    In Saxon law. A servant or any ministerial officer. Cowell.
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