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  • WITTINGLY
    With knowledge and by design, excluding only cases which are the result of accident or forgetfulness, and including cases where one does an unlawful act through an erroneous belief of his right Osborne v. Warren, 44 Conn. 357.
  • WOLD
    In England. A down or champaign ground, hilly and void of wood. Cowell; Blount.
  • WOLF'S HEAD
    In old English law. This term was used as descriptive of the condition of an outlaw. Such persons were said to carry a wolf's head, (caput lupinum;) for if caught alive they were to be brought to the king, and if they defended themselves they might be slain and their More...
  • WOMEN
    All the females of the human species. AH such females who have arrived at the age of puberty. Dig. 50, 16, 13.
  • WONG
    Sax. In old records. A field. Spelman; Cowell.
  • WOOD-CORN
    In old records. A certain quantity of oats or other grain, paid by customary tenants to the lord, for liberty to pick up dead or broken wood. Cowell.
  • WOOD-GELD
    In old English law. Money paid for the liberty of taking wood in a forest. Cowell. Immunity from such payment Spelman.
  • WOOD LEAVE
    A license or right to cut down, remove, and use standing timber on a given estate or tract of land. Osborne v. O'Reilly, 42 N. J. Eq. 467, 9 Atl. 209.
  • WOOD-MOTE
    In forest law. The old name of the court of attachments; other¬wise called the "Forty-Days Court" Cowell; 3 Bl. Comm. 71.
  • WOOD PLEA COURT
    A court held twice in the year in the forest of Clun, in Shropshire, for determining all matters of wood and' agistments. Cowell.
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