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  • 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 Certain parts of this act are repealed by St 19 & 20 Vict c. 64, and St. 26 A 27 Vict c. 125.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...
  • WETHER
    A castrated ram, at least one year old. In an indictment it may be called a "sheep." Rex v. Blrket, 4 Car. A P. 216.
  • WHALE
    A royal fish, the head being the king's property, and the tail the queen's. 2 Steph. Comm. 19, 448, 540.
  • WHALER
    A vessel employed in the whale fishery.
  • WHARF
    A perpendicular bank or mound of timber, or stone and earth, raised on the shore of a harbor, river, canal, etc., or extending some distance into the water, for the convenience of lading and unlading ships and other vessels. Webster. A broad, plain place near a river, canal, or other More...
  • WHARFAGE
    Money paid for landing wares at a wharf, or for shipping or taking goods into a boat or barge from thence. Cowell. Strictly speaking "wharfage" is money due, or money actually paid, for the privilege of landing goods upon, or loading a vessel while moored from, a wharf. 1 Brown, More...
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