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  • WITHOUT RESERVE
    A term applied to a sale by auction, indicating that no price Is reserved.
  • WITHOUT STINT
    Without limit; without any specified number.
  • WITHOUT THIS THAT
    In pleading. Formal words used in pleadings by way of traverse, particularly by way of special traverse, importing an express denial of some matter of fact alleged in a previous pleading. Steph. PI. 168, 169, 179, 180.
  • WITNESS
    v. To subscribe one's name to a deed, will, or other document, for the pur-pose of attesting its authenticity, and proving its execution, if required, by bearing witness thereto.
  • WITNESS
    n. In the primary sense of the word, a witness is a person who has knowledge of an event. As the most direct mode of acquiring knowledge of an event is by seeing it, "witness" has acquired the sense of a person who is present at and observes a transaction. More...
  • WITNESSING PART
    In a deed or other formal instrument, is that part which conies after the recitals, or, where there are no recitals, after the parties. It usually commences with a reference to the agreement or intention to be effectuated, then states or re-fers to the consideration, and concludes with the operative More...
  • 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.
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