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  • WITH ALL FAULTS
    This phrase, used in a contract of sale, implies that the purchaser assumes the risk of all defects and imperfections, provided they do not destroy the identity of the thing sold.
  • WITH STRONG HAND
    In pleading. A technical phrase indispensable in describing a forcible entry in an indictment. No other word or circumlocution will answer the same purpose. Rex v. Wilson, 8 Term R. 867.
  • WITHDRAWING A JUROR
    In practice. The withdrawing of one of the twelve jurors from the box, with the result that, the jury being now found to be incomplete, no further proceedings can be had in the cause. The withdrawing of a juror is always by the agreement of the parties, and is frequently More...
  • WITHDRAWING RECORD
    In practice. The withdrawing by a plaintiff of the nisi prius or trial record filed in a cause, just before the trial is entered upon, for the purpose of preventing the cause from being tried. This may be done before the Jury are sworn, and afterwards, by consent of the More...
  • WITHERNAM
    In practice. A taking by way of reprisal; a taking or a reprisal Of other goods, in lieu of those that were formerly taken and eloigned or withholden. 2 Inst. 141. A reciprocal distress, in lleii of a previous one which has been eloigned. 8 Bl. Comm. 148.
  • WITHER SAKE
    An apostate, or perfidious renegade. Cowell.
  • WITHOUT DAY
    A term used to signify that an adjournment or continuance is indefinite or final, or that no subsequent time is fixed for another meeting, or for further proceedings. See SINE DIE.
  • WITHOUT IMPEACHMENT OF WASTE
    The effect of the insertion of this clause in a lease for life is to give the tenant the right to cut timber on the estate, without making himself thereby liable to an action for waste.
  • WITHOUT PREJUDICE
    Where an offer or admission is made "without prejudice," or a motion is denied or a bill in equity dismissed "without prejudice," it is meant as a declaration that no rights or privileges of the party concerned are to be considered as thereby waived or lost except in so far More...
  • WITHOUT RECOURSE
    This phrase, used in making a qualified indorsement of a negotiable instrument, signifies that the Indorser means to save himself from liability to subsequent holders, and is a notification that, if payment is refused by the parties primarily liable, recourse cannot be had to him. See Thompson v. First State More...
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