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  • WEAR AND TEAR
    "Natural wear and tear" means deterioration or depreciation in value by ordinary and reasonable use of the subject-matter. Green v. Kelly, 20 N. J. Law, 548.
  • WED
    Sax. A covenant or agreement Cowell.
  • WEDBEDRIP
    Sax. In old English law. A customary service which tenants paid to their lords, in cutting down their corn, or doing other harvest duties; as if a covenant to reap for the lord at the time of his bidding or commanding. Cowell.
  • WEEK
    A period of seven consecutive days of time; and, in some uses, the period beginning with Sunday and ending with Sat-urday. See Leach v. Burr, 188 U. S. 510, 23 Sup. Ct 393, 47 L. Ed. 567; Ronkendorff v. Taylor, 4 Pet 361, 7 L. Ed. 882; Evans v. Job, More...
  • WEHADINC
    In old European law. The judicial combat or duel; the trial by battel.
  • WEIGHAGE
    In English law. A duty or toll paid for weighing merchandise. It is called "tronage" for weighing wool at the king's beam, or "pesage" for weighing other avoirdupois goods. 2 Chit. Com. Law, 16.
  • WEIGHT
    A measure of heaviness or ponderosity; and in a metaphorical sense in-fluence, effectiveness, or power to influence judgment or conduct—Gross Weight. The whole weight of goods and merchandise, including the dust and dross, and also the chest or bag, etc., upon which tare and tret are allowed.—Weights of annceL See More...
  • WEIR
    A fence or an inclosure pf twigs, set in a stream to catch fish. Pub. St. Mass. p. 1297; Treat v. Chipman, 35 Me. 38.
  • WELL
    adj. In marine insurance, A term used as.descriptive of the safety and soundness of a vessel, in a warranty of her condition at a particular time and place; as,"warranted well" In the old reports. Good, sufficient, unobjectionable in law; the opposite of "ill."
  • WELL
    n. A well, as the term is used in a conveyance, is an artificial excavation and erection in and upon land, which necessarily, from its nature and the mode of its use, in-cludes and comprehends the substantial occu-pation and beneficial enjoyment of the whole premises on which it is situated. More...
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