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WOOL SORTERS' DISEASE
In medical jurisprudence. A popular name for malignant anthrax, a disease characterized by malignant pustules or carbuncles, caused by infection by putrid animal matter containing the bacillus anthracls, and chiefly prevalent among persons whose business is to handle wool and hides, such as tanners, butchers, and herdsmen. See Bacon v. More...

In medical jurisprudence. A popular name for malignant anthrax, a disease characterized by malignant pustules or carbuncles, caused by infection by putrid animal matter containing the bacillus anthracls, and chiefly prevalent among persons whose business is to handle wool and hides, such as tanners, butchers, and herdsmen. See Bacon v. United States Mut Acc. Ass'n, 123 N. Y. 304, 25 N. E. 399, 9 L. R. A. 617, 20 Am. St Rep. 748. Less...
WORDS
As nsed in law, this word generally signifles the technical terms and phrases appropriate to particular instruments, or aptly fitted to the expression of a particular Intention in legal instruments. See the subtitles following. —Words of art. The vocabulary or terminology of a particular art or science, and especially those More...

As nsed in law, this word generally signifles the technical terms and phrases appropriate to particular instruments, or aptly fitted to the expression of a particular Intention in legal instruments. See the subtitles following. —Words of art. The vocabulary or terminology of a particular art or science, and especially those expressions which are idiomatic or peculiar to it. See Cargill v. Thompson, 57 Minn. 534, 59 N. W. 638.—Words of limitation. See LIMITATION.—Words of procreation. To create an estate tail by deed, it is necessary that words of procreation should be used in order to confine the estate to the descendants of the first grantee, as in tbe usual form of limitation,—"to A. and the heirs of his body." Sweet—Words of purchase. See PURCHASE. Less...
WORK AND LABOR
The name of one of the common counts in actions of assumpsit, being for work and labor done and materials furnished! by the plaintiff for the defendant.

The name of one of the common counts in actions of assumpsit, being for work and labor done and materials furnished! by the plaintiff for the defendant. Less...
WORK-BEAST, OR WORK-HORSE
These terms mean an animal of the horse kind, which can be rendered fit for service, as well as one of maturer age and in actual use. Winfrey v. Zimmerman, 8 Bush (Ky.) 587.

These terms mean an animal of the horse kind, which can be rendered fit for service, as well as one of maturer age and in actual use. Winfrey v. Zimmerman, 8 Bush (Ky.) 587. Less...
WORK-HOUSE
A place where convicts (or paupers) are confined and kept at labor.

A place where convicts (or paupers) are confined and kept at labor. Less...
WORKING DAYS
In settling lay days, or days of demurrage, sometimes the contract specifies "working days;" in the computation, Sundays and custom-house holidays are excluded. 1 Bell, Comm. 577.

In settling lay days, or days of demurrage, sometimes the contract specifies "working days;" in the computation, Sundays and custom-house holidays are excluded. 1 Bell, Comm. 577. Less...
WORKMAN
One who labors; one who is employed to do business for another.

One who labors; one who is employed to do business for another. Less...
WORKS
This term means sometimes a mill, factory, or other establishment for per-forming industrial labor of any sort (South St. Joseph Land Co. v. Pitt 114 Mo. 135, 21 S. W. 449,) and sometimes a building, struc¬ture, or erection of any kind upon land, as in the civil-law phrase **new works." More...

This term means sometimes a mill, factory, or other establishment for per-forming industrial labor of any sort (South St. Joseph Land Co. v. Pitt 114 Mo. 135, 21 S. W. 449,) and sometimes a building, struc¬ture, or erection of any kind upon land, as in the civil-law phrase **new works." —New works. A term of the civil law com-prehending every sort of edifice or other structure which is newly commenced on a given estate or lot Its importance lies chiefly in the fact that a remedy is given ("denunciation of new works") to an adjacent proprietor whose property would be injured or subjected to a more onerous servitude if such a work were allowed to proceed to completion.—Public work, whether of construction or adaptation, undertaken and carried out by the national, state, or municipal authorities, and designed to subserve some purpose of public necessity, use, or convenience; such as public buildings, roads, aqueducts, parks, etc. See Ellis v. Common Council, 123 Mich. 567. 82 N. W. 244; Winters v. Duluth, 82 Minn. 127, 84 N. W. 788. Less...
WORLD
"this term sometimes denotes all persons whatsoever who may have, claim, or acquire an Interest in the subject-matter; as in saying that a judgment in rem binds "all the world."

"this term sometimes denotes all persons whatsoever who may have, claim, or acquire an Interest in the subject-matter; as in saying that a judgment in rem binds "all the world." Less...
WORSHIP
The act of offering honor and adoration to the Divine Being. Reli¬gious exercises participated in by a number of persons assembled for that purpose, the disturbance of which is a statutory offense in many states. See Hamsher v. Hamsher, 132 111. 273, 22 N. E. 1123, 8 L. R. A. More...

The act of offering honor and adoration to the Divine Being. Reli¬gious exercises participated in by a number of persons assembled for that purpose, the disturbance of which is a statutory offense in many states. See Hamsher v. Hamsher, 132 111. 273, 22 N. E. 1123, 8 L. R. A. 556; State District Board, 76 Wis. 177, 44 N. W. 967, 7 L. R. A. 330, 20 Am. St. Rep. 41; State v. Buswell, 40 Neb. 158, 58 N. W. 728, 24 L. R. A. 68.In English law. A title of honor or dignity used In addresses to certain magistrates and other persons of rank or office. Public worship. This term may mean the worship of God, conducted and observed un-der public authority; or it may mean worship in an open or public place, without privacy or concealment; or it may mean the performance of religious exercises, under a provision for an equal right in the whole public to participate in its benefits; or It may be used in contradis¬tinction to worship in the family or the closet. In this country, what is called "public worship" is commonly conducted by voluntary so¬cieties, constituted according to their own notions of ecclesiastical authority and ritual propriety, opening their places of worship, and admitting to their religious services such persons, and upon such terms, and subject to such reg¬ulations, as they may choose to designate and establish. A church absolutely belonging to the public, and in which all persons without restriction have equal rights, such as the public enjoy in highways or public landings, is certainly a very rare institution. Attorney General v. Merrimack Mfg. Co., 14 Gray (Mass.) 586. Less...

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