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  • 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.
  • WESTMINSTER CONFESSION
    A document containing a statement of religious doctrine, concocted at a conference of British and continental Protestant divines at Westminster, in the year 14*43, which subsequently became the basis of the Scotch Presbyterian Church. Wharton.
  • WESTMINSTER THE SECOND
    The statute 13 Edw. I. St 1, A. D. 1285, otherwise called the "Statute de Bonis Condition alious." See 2 Reeve, Eng. Law, c. 10, p. 163. Certain parts of this act are repealed by St 19 & 20 Vict c. 64, and St. 26 A 27 Vict c. 125. More...
  • WESTMINSTER THE FIRST
    The statute 3 Edw. I.,, A. D. 1275. This statute which deserves the name of a code rather than an act, is divided into fifty-one .chapters. Without extending the exemption of churchmen from civil jurisdiction, it potects the property of the church from the violence and spoliation of the king More...
  • WESTMINSTER THE THIRD, STATUTE OF
    A statute passed in the eighteenth year of Edward I. More commonly known as the "Statute of Quia Emptores" . See Barring, Ob St 167-169.
  • WEST SAXON LAGE
    The laws of the West Saxons, which obtained in the counties to the south and west of England, from Kent to Devonshire. Blackstone supposes these to have been much the same with the laws of Alfred, being the municipal law of the far most considerable part of his dominions, and More...
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