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  • 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.
  • WOOD-STREET COMPTER
    The name of an old prison in London.
  • WOODS
    A forest; land covered with a large and thick collection of natural forest trees. The old books say that a grant of "all his woods'" (omnes boscos suos) will pass the land, as well as the trees growing upon It Co. Litt 4b. See Averitt v. Murrell, 49 N. C. More...
  • WOODWARDS
    Officers of the forest, whose duty consists in looking after the wood and vert and venison, and preventing offenses relating to the same. Manw. 189.
  • WOOL-SACK
    The seat of the lord chancellor of England In the house of lords, being a large square bag of wool, without back or arms, covered with red cloth. Webster; Brande.
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